To enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one's self desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly; -- followed by in or into.
Three of our party were sleeping, and the others talked quietly and low, desultorily, as if the drowsiness had half conquered us too.
He spent whole nights in reading; and no longer desultorily.
In time, the talk between the two young men, which had begun so desultorily, warmed up.
In his after-college life, athletics had continued to interest him if desultorily.
He walked to the glass wall and looked out desultorily.
Sitting on the uncomfortable wooden stools, or walking idly about, we smoked incessantly, read desultorily in magazines and books, and talked spasmodically.
The storm wore away as desultorily as it had come, and the long night set in.
