desultory in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

desultory in the PONS Dictionary

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Among the sins of our youth, we, like him, have traded in desultory versification, but have long been brought back to lyrical "rhyme", and heroic "blank verse".
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What follows is at best very obscure and desultory.
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I had come to know that rhythm gives reality to that which is desultory, which is insignificant in itself.
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Quite wealthy, he runs a flotilla of coastal steamers in a desultory but increasingly profitable way.
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The second was a desultory, single-plane affair in which the warship easily drove off the lone torpedo bomber.
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The women resume their drunken and desultory ramblings.
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Again, a desultory war followed.
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They repulsed the desultory attacks of the imperial troops.
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A somewhat desultory action took place on the evening of the 10th.
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That night, she experienced a couple of desultory air attacks.
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