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Meanings of desultory in английском

Desultory.

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          Usage of desultory in английском
          1
          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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