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Definition of Desultorily
1. adv. In a desultory manner; without method; loosely; immethodically.
Definition of Desultorily
1. Adverb. In a desultory fashion ¹
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Definition of Desultorily
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desultorily
Literary usage of Desultorily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of a Scottish Probationer: Being a Memoir of Thomas Davidson, with by James Brown (1889)
"Spent the day in a very desultory kind of way—reading desultorily, thinking
desultorily, and desultorily dodging about the town. Had tea with Jack. ..."
2. The treasury of knowledge and library of reference by Samuel Maunder, Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward (1859)
"... the rind of ». a light leap or bound Skipjack, s. an upstart ; a lackey ^kip'per,
t. the master of a merchant vessel to tight desultorily ..."
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