desultory
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Desultory teams want The Next Mahomes, but what if there isn’t one?
From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2018
Desultory peace talks among representatives of the Russian government, the Moscow-installed Chechen government and General Dudayev were suspended last month after General Anatoly Romanov, commander of all Russian troops, was gravely wounded.
From Time Magazine Archive
Desultory exercise—say two or three hours of baseball on Saturdays—does not meet the need—it emphasizes it rather.
From The Subterranean Brotherhood by Hawthorne, Julian
Desultory, des′ul-tor-i, adj. jumping from one thing to another: without rational or logical connection: rambling: hasty: loose.—adv.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Desultory questions about my predecessors elicited no information about Francis.
From The Man with the Clubfoot by Williams, Valentine
Vocabulary lists containing desultory
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And Then There Were None
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