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
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
“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
He came from behind the bar and resumed his desultory sweeping just as Lana, Darlene, and the bird, looking like a small unruly mob, burst in from the alley.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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And Then There Were None
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