Thesaurus / desultory

desultory

How to use desultory in a sentence

A desultory conversation on politics, in which neither took the slightest interest, was a safe neutral ground.

In the lulls, Robert and his mother exchanged bits of desultory conversation.

The exchange, however, was still the field where a desultory fight was kept up by the shareholders.

And you will find I have a good deal of what you have, only mine in a perfectly desultory manner, as is necessary to 358 an exile.

Their desultory discourse was soon interrupted by their arrival at the cottage of Mr. Wharton.

THE SPYJ. FENIMORE COOPER

By 8.0 the musketry and the shelling began to slacken down although there was a good deal of desultory shooting.

Everything seemed as usual; Uncle Lambert, in evening dress, was playing desultory snatches from Ruddigore.

Ever since the Kinghamstead election I had maintained what seemed a desultory friendship with Isabel.

THE NEW MACHIAVELLIHERBERT GEORGE WELLS

The schools must see to it that the desultory and dissipating methods of reading, so prevalent in the home, are not encouraged.

Adopting a desultory system of warfare, he obliged them to recross the Apure, having lost half their original numbers.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985