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desultory

adjective as in random

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The Americans and their allies are carrying out a desultory air campaign in Syria that appears focused on support for the Kurds.

Yammara has been sleeping in desultory fashion with a student, Aura, who then turns up pregnant and moves in with him.

His closing argument was a “desultory mess,” so bad that he lost the case.

Most of that is the desultory ticky-tacky kind that litters the right side of people's Facebook profiles.

Libya sank into civil war with NATO's desultory participation taking it toward stalemate, maybe even break-up.

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.

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On this page you'll find 36 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to desultory, such as: aimless, chaotic, erratic, haphazard, chance, and deviating.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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