desultory

How To Use desultory In A Sentence

• Elongated roars and fragments of voices gave a sense of atmospheric portent, while syncopated pings, clicks and chirps added a desultory counterpoint.
• We present for your inspection, and then debunk, or paw at in desultory fashion, a dozen of the choicest conspiracy theories to gain traction since Jan. 20. Keeping Up with the Wingnuts
• As we near the end of the trail, Thomsen and I have a desultory conversation about how the Sierra are changing: more traffic, more big houses, more kids concerned only with what's on sale at the mall.
• His perception was that the desultory and undisciplined Chinese people did not deserve a democratic system.
• In the absence of accurate accounting, political debate over some of the most momentous issues of the age is proceeding in an empirical vacuum, and has become much more confused and desultory than it needs to be.
• There is desultory chitchat on the verandah as evening slides into pitch-dark night.
• There was a halting, desultory conversation, and he never mentioned the script.
• The stroll looks innocuously aimless enough, random conversation and desultory gaits all firmly in place.
• The executive has the habit of depending upon "desultory" memory where the logical should be developed. Increasing Human Efficiency in Business: A Contribution to the Psychology of Business
• Slave patrols, rather than being desultory or inadequate, turn out to be one of the chief ways that the southern states enforced their peculiar institution.