Desultory

Hud Bannon is a desultory wretch, a man without purpose straggling through life rather than living it, unable to break free from the damaged familial bonds that keep him tied to his father's failing cattle ranch in a dusty Texas panhandle town.

Jim Lyons filed a desultory complaint against mail-in voting and then went back to plotting more lawsuits… against Republicans.

More than anything else, the Deep State fears that the Donald may have learned just enough during his first desultory sojourn in the Oval Office to actually threaten their rule should he pull a Grover Cleveland.

The referendum can still be won, but it would be a desultory, minimalist win that will leave the nation divided for years (“The Yes campaign must abandon its ‘make history’ shtick or risk being on the wrong side of it”).

The team's opening-day starter, Kyle Muller, was just demoted to Triple-A Sacramento after allowing 92 baserunners in 47 desultory innings.

After a desultory start to the campaign season, news outlets are starting to see interest in political news perk up because of an extraordinary run of stories over the past few weeks.

Desultory efforts at preservation failed, perhaps in part because of its brief, uneventful career, and went to the cutters in 1960.

In a desultory and ill-tempered campaign, he berated the “free education” policy of the Action Group that had transformed Western Nigeria, village for village, into perhaps the most literate territory in Africa south of the Sahara.

President Obama’s former communications director and co-host of offers a playbook for fixing the current desultory state of politics as well as defeating Trump and preventing another Trump-like leader in the future.

I imagined her first fifteen or twenty Fuck-offs had carried some real bite but now were largely desultory, as if I should've known I had no business speaking to her and I was being told to fuck off strictly as a public service.

After a few unsuccessful spells as a low level clerk, his job-seeking became desultory.

After some delay and desultory fighting, he and his uncle, Azam Khan, occupied Kabul in March 1866.

Scientific work All his life Diderot would keep writing on science in a desultory way.

She was a bright girl, if not brilliant, but received only an imperfect and desultory formal education.

The judges won, by a small margin on a desultory turnout, and Dredd was satisfied.

The Lunts wanted Brando to play the role of Alfred Lunt 's son in O Mistress Mine, and Lunt even coached him for his audition, but Brando's reading during the audition was so desultory that they couldn't hire him.