Desultory

desultory



See haphazard







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[des-uhl-tawr-ee]



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–adjective 

1. lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful (反覆無常的): desultory [conversation]. 

2. digressing (走向岔道) from or unconnected with the main subject; random: a desultory remark.  



—Synonyms 

1. See haphazard.





　

His day begins at dawn. He sleeps in his clothes closet. He drinks his coffee out of the lid of the cookie jar. When the store's [steel shutters] won't roll up, he uses shoe polish to write a big sign: I ASSURE YOU WE ARE OPEN. 



He gets in desultory [conversations] with customers 



who are opposed to cigarettes, or looking for porno mags, or claim the vacant-eyed guy leaning against the building is a heavy metal star from Russia.





see sultry  



sporadic irregular, occasional

inadvertent unintentional, heedless



remittent【醫】弛張的;忽輕忽重的



oblique neither perpendicular nor parallel →indirect 

ulterior concealed, future



sparse 

grows thinly or is thinly strewn or sown, over a wide area: 

sparse [vegetation]; a sparse [population].



dissolute (licentious)

desultory (random)