Desultory is derived from a french word, desilire (to leap down) - its English meaning is: lacking in consistency, random
he ate a desultory
We never really hung out, or had anything more than desultory conversations.
For days and days the desultory firing went on; it seemed like the war would never end.
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The cast of Desultory Research at the Oates Lab - 2011 includes: Frances Mitchell as Miss Renee Gallagher
Cursory means superficial and the synonyms for this adjective are: brief, careless, desultory, offhand, etc.
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I know "A Simple Desultory Philippic" by Simon and Garfunkel, and "Mr. Jones and Me" by Counting Crows. But there are a couple others that elude me.
It is the origin
Judaic origin, religious Latin origin, or Celtic origin Judaic origin, religious latin origin,, or Celtic origin.