• Desultorily

    Origin

    desultory + -ly

    Full definition of desultorily

    Adverb

    desultorily

    1. In a desultory fashionShe had been working desultorily on her book for several years.
      • 1919, William Somerset Maugham, ,I read a page here and there, and made acquaintance with a great many authors whom I was content to know thus desultorily.
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