desultory

/des-uhl-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee/US // ˈdɛs əlˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i //UK // (ˈdɛsəltərɪ, -trɪ) //

轻率的,轻率,粗略的,悠闲

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

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- : lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
- : digressing from or unconnected with the main subject; random: a desultory remark.

adj.random

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The Americans and their allies are carrying out a desultory air campaign in Syria that appears focused on support for the Kurds.
Yammara has been sleeping in desultory fashion with a student, Aura, who then turns up pregnant and moves in with him.
His closing argument was a “desultory mess,” so bad that he lost the case.
Most of that is the desultory ticky-tacky kind that litters the right side of people's Facebook profiles.
Libya sank into civil war with NATO's desultory participation taking it toward stalemate, maybe even break-up.
A desultory conversation on politics, in which neither took the slightest interest, was a safe neutral ground.
In the lulls, Robert and his mother exchanged bits of desultory conversation.
The exchange, however, was still the field where a desultory fight was kept up by the shareholders.
And you will find I have a good deal of what you have, only mine in a perfectly desultory manner, as is necessary to 358 an exile.
Their desultory discourse was soon interrupted by their arrival at the cottage of Mr. Wharton.