desultory
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Venezuela’s acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, whose administration was widely assailed for its desultory initial response, has made high-profile appearances in La Guaira.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Then again, it’s all too easy to be distracted from the desultory happenings on stage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
Last night he did an obscure X interview show and seemed desultory and depressed.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2024
The lobby bar at the town’s only hotel—usually so desultory on non–parents’ weekend weekends that it closed around 8—was jammed with visitors from surrounding states.
From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2024
She went into the bedroom, turned back her mattress and took from under it a notebook in which she had kept a desultory diary during her thirteenth year, and a square manila envelope.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
Vocabulary lists containing desultory
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Intermediate, List 1
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