desultory

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From its desultory beginnings, Random House has grown into a behemoth, one of the industry’s Big Five.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

Last night he did an obscure X interview show and seemed desultory and depressed.

From Salon • Sep. 4, 2024

It was a suitably desultory ending for what has turned into a desultory caucus.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2024

“Napoleon,” Ridley Scott’s clamorously eventful but oddly desultory new epic, wrings its own variation on that idea: Here is a man whose love for a woman fuels and finally destroys his delusions of greatness.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2023

The slates flew off and shattered themselves with desultory crashes.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White