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
Biden made a few desultory campaign speeches here and there.
From Salon • Aug. 7, 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
She knew she did not bore him, and she buffed or painted her fingernails studiously while he dozed or brooded and the desultory warm afternoon breeze vibrated delicately on the surface of the beach.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Vocabulary lists containing desultory
Behave Yourself! Vocabulary for Good, Bad, and Indifferent Conduct
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And Then There Were None
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