desultory
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Then again, it’s all too easy to be distracted from the desultory happenings on stage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
Biden made a few desultory campaign speeches here and there.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 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
Once we got to the beach, we would start a desultory routine of sitting out on the sand in the morning, then waiting in line at fish camps in the evenings.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2023
This time they came from the Bible, through which she made desultory progress: gainsay, ravening, hoar.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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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Intermediate, List 1
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