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)
- Aug 10 Sun 2008 15:11
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