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Meanings of desultory way in English

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Usage of desultory way in English
1
Readable, though in a rather desultory way, and leaving curiously little aftertaste.
The Irish Times
2
This is the most desultory way possible of cultivating the fad.
Why Worry?
3
Looking at such things, you muse, in a vague, desultory way.
The Recreations of a Country Parson
4
In a desultory way I began to look, and one day I found it.
Magic seeds
5
He had studied but little; he had read much, but in a desultory way.
Without a Home
6
Out at the front the fight still went on, but in a desultory way.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
7
He pursued his desultory way now with a calmer step.
Eugene Aram — Volume 03
8
At home he read in the most desultory way.
The Precipice
9
In a desultory way, he was a good watch-dog.
Remarks
10
Then they put their arms around each other, and talked in a weary, desultory way.
Miss Dexie / A Romance of the Provinces
11
I was able to go my own desultory way, riding my hobbies where I would.
A. V. Laider
12
They do not know how to do it and the discussion begins in a desultory way.
The Man in Court
13
And we talked "preparedness" in the usual desultory way.
The World Decision
14
Psmith, leaning against the mantlepiece, discoursed in a desultory way on the day's happenings-thescore off Mr.
Mike and Psmith
15
At Chalmette, six miles upon his desultory way, there suddenly menaced him a vast and bewildering industry.
Roads of Destiny
16
Psmith, leaning against the mantelpiece, discoursed in a desultory way on the day's happenings-­thescore off Mr.
Mike
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