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Meanings of desultory in inglês

Desultory.

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Usage of desultory in inglês
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In the lulls, Robert and his mother exchanged bits of desultory conversation.
The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories
2
The music gave an opportunity for some desultory conversation, in which Mr.
Maruja
3
They sat talking in a desultory fashion, each restlessly watching the others.
Blue Aloes: Stories of South Africa
4
They did not even answer the desultory fire directed at the loopholes.
A Set of Six
5
And raged even more in frustration over the desultory response in camp.
Surrender to the will of the night
6
For some little time our education progressed in a very desultory fashion.
Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls
7
Passive reading is even more harmful in its effects than desultory reading.
Pushing to the Front
8
Their meeting in Chuck's office the next day had a desultory feeling.
Silent screams
9
The concluding volume of any collected edition is unavoidably fragmentary and desultory.
Miscellanies
10
Children played beneath the shade of the trees, dust-covered, desultory, and joyless.
Running with the Demon
11
Readable, though in a rather desultory way, and leaving curiously little aftertaste.
The Irish Times
12
Four ragged men greeted them, crouched over a desultory game of Travel-Up.
Non-Stop
13
Two more desultory albums followed before they were dropped by their label.
The Irish Times
14
The slavers had set a watch, but it was a desultory one.
Empire in black and gold
15
Troops may be exposed to desultory shelling during the day or night.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2
16
As for my education it was limited, and I may say desultory.
The Autobiography of Methuselah
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common