desultorily
English
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editdesultorily (comparative more desultorily, superlative most desultorily)
- In a desultory fashion.
- She had been working desultorily on her book for several years.
- 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XXII, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
- I read a page here and there, and made acquaintance with a great many authors whom I was content to know thus desultorily.