desultorily

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  • She wandered desultorily around the city centre.

  • A handful of couples danced desultorily.

  • The team gathered desultorily around him.

  • I cursed desultorily with a smooth whispered flow of curses, because the circumstances seemed to demand it.

  • After supper, he marked seventeen sets of papers desultorily in red pencil, then got up to look for the baby book.

  • Slowly, wearily, desultorily, the erosion and desquamation went on.

  • They talked desultorily as the launch thrashed along.

  • She perched on the rail and pulled at the leafless vine-stems beside her, talking idly and desultorily of things she was not interested in.

  • She came and sat beside me on the river-balcony, and talked a little, desultorily and absent-mindedly.

  • Her fellow workers chatted desultorily of her as they had opportunity, and complacently thanked their gods that they were not as she--with reason.

  • The storm wore away as desultorily as it had come, and the long night set in.

  • Sitting on the uncomfortable wooden stools, or walking idly about, we smoked incessantly, read desultorily in magazines and books, and talked spasmodically.

  • He walked to the glass wall and looked out desultorily.

  • In his after-college life, athletics had continued to interest him if desultorily.

  • In time, the talk between the two young men, which had begun so desultorily, warmed up.

  • He spent whole nights in reading; and no longer desultorily.

  • Three of our party were sleeping, and the others talked quietly and low, desultorily, as if the drowsiness had half conquered us too.

  • To enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one's self desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly; -- followed by in or into.

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