desultory

I try to keep up with the market, in a desultory kind of way.

Then, after a few desultory words, he took his leave.

But they also made a game of what could have been a desultory loss.

Both companies reported desultory results, and the stock market took note.

They spent the rest of the morning in desultory conversation.

They sat talking in a desultory fashion for several hours.

There are desultory attempts to work in a little history.

But the story itself seems desultory and the language a bit wooden.

And does all that desultory conversation mean more than it says?

Conversation was desultory because none of us knew quite what to talk about.

Two others were involved in a desultory game of poker.

There was a rather desultory party on the night of their arrival.

The two of them talked in a desultory way about the weather and other such morning things.

After some desultory searching and calling she set off for home.

There is no particular story, just a series of desultory encounters.

The old men watch the children and speak in low, desultory tones.

They spoke instead in a desultory fashion of current events.

During the ride from the hospital, their conversation had been desultory at best.

That night, she experienced a couple of desultory air attacks.

He was still house hunting in a fairly desultory way.

The rest of the day was spent in desultory gun fire that achieved very little.

As the door opened, the girl, who was sat upon the bed in a desultory fashion, looked up.

The fighting was so brief and desultory it almost did not take place.

There's a desultory cheer around the ground when they win it back.

After a few minutes more of desultory chat, the meeting broke up.