desultory
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- s marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; jumping from one thing to another
desultory thoughts
the desultory conversation characteristic of cocktail parties
- In the agonizing interim, there were complaints that the Commission was being deliberately desultory,perhaps trying to delay until past the elections.
- The aimless and desultory shopping of her friend from abroad left her with a headache.
- In parched, dusty Milan this summer the La Scala orchestra directed by Signor Toscanini had a desultory season.