August 10, 2008

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.


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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)








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