desultory

The Americans and their allies are carrying out a desultory air campaign in Syria that appears focused on support for the Kurds.

Yammara has been sleeping in desultory fashion with a student, Aura, who then turns up pregnant and moves in with him.

His closing argument was a “desultory mess,” so bad that he lost the case.

Most of that is the desultory ticky-tacky kind that litters the right side of people's Facebook profiles.

Libya sank into civil war with NATO's desultory participation taking it toward stalemate, maybe even break-up.

A desultory conversation on politics, in which neither took the slightest interest, was a safe neutral ground.

In the lulls, Robert and his mother exchanged bits of desultory conversation.

The exchange, however, was still the field where a desultory fight was kept up by the shareholders.

And you will find I have a good deal of what you have, only mine in a perfectly desultory manner, as is necessary to 358 an exile.

Their desultory discourse was soon interrupted by their arrival at the cottage of Mr. Wharton.