desultory thoughts. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The executive has the habit of depending upon "desultory" memory where the logical should be developed. From Wordnik.com. [Increasing Human Efficiency in Business: A Contribution to the Psychology of Business] Reference
I paid my duty to him, and we kept up a kind of desultory conversation until the departure of the major. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 01: Childhood] Reference
I was following links in the kind of desultory matter one does when trying to abstain from real work, when I came across this. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Rafe had read much more in a desultory fashion than. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
The 'desultory reader' has now been defined and elevated. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
He took up the instrument and struck a few desultory chords. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
Indeed the custom, in a desultory way, dates back to Plymouth. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
After a little more desultory conversation, he strolled away from. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The desultory conversation that followed was almost wholly between. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow Hill] Reference
Becky, the chaperon, was the most desultory collector of the party. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
The desultory reader regards literature as his pastime and recreation. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
Blockade-runners slipped past U.S. warships, ignoring desultory gunfire. From Wordnik.com. [How About Another Bay Of Pigs?] Reference
Warm, desultory days by the pristine beaches, surrounded by the rich and famous. From Wordnik.com. [Letter From America: Nouveau Beach] Reference
Boer scouts were all round them, and the day was ushered in with desultory firing. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
There are, instead, just desultory statements, odd articles and speculations and musings. From Wordnik.com. [The Armchair Air War] Reference
A little desultory fighting took place, but when the British troops advanced, those of the Orange. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
Happy is he who has the time, the opportunity, and the education, to become a desultory reader, in. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
Over the past half-century, the price of a generally desultory American policy has been compounded. From Wordnik.com. [How We Got to This Point] Reference
The desultory firing along our changed front showed too plainly the ground we had lost the day before. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
The conversation was trivial and desultory, even more trivial and desultory than most tea-time conversation. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
I've got these two desultory apple trees and I expect nothing from them so exotic as an actually edible apple. From Wordnik.com. [Hard cider and BlackBerrys] Reference
Disgusted with their desultory, hand-to-mouth existence, they yearned after respectability and a prime-ministership. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
It should also consider deferring the mostly desultory border talks, which have, in any case, moved at a glacial pace. From Wordnik.com. [Why India Must Stand Up to China] Reference
The battle virtually ended about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, though more or less desultory firing continued until dark. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Then there were last week's European Parliament elections -- desultory, as always, with low turnout and unedifying debate. From Wordnik.com. [EUROPE'S SLOW TRIUMPH] Reference
Of desultory comments, charming and instructive in themselves and valuable in the formation of taste, we have abundant store. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
A young man's very desultory reading will perhaps be one of the most useful means for finding what his life's career should be. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
Back and forth they come, climbing and standing on my chest, tossing in melons, tree greens, familiar tastes, desultory chews. From Wordnik.com. [S OWN STORY(1)] Reference
Though Lincoln probably did not realize it, this, his first election, put an end forever to his drifting, desultory, frontier life. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Six weeks of desultory Senate debate about the energy bill reached an almost comic culmination in ... yet another agriculture subsidy. From Wordnik.com. [Being Green At Ben &Amp; Jerry's] Reference
It is not a complete romance, but a desultory sketch of the events and manners of the time, with a few imaginary personages introduced. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
Most of what is here related came to the knowledge of the writer in desultory conversations with Hodgkinson, and two other persons now in. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
Mary Fuller continued in her school, pursuing a strangely desultory course of studies, but improving greatly both in intellect and health. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
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