desultorily

For the rest of the hour we desultorily ran through plays.

The man in the other bed was reading a magazine and looked up at them desultorily.

The driver and the guard were standing outside, talking desultorily.

The young cadets, or most of them, were on their feet, and moving desultorily about.

He motioned desultorily with his hand, and they closed up.

The two men sat and chatted desultorily for the better of an hour.

I have read desultorily the writings of the younger generation.

My train would not leave for over two hours, so I strolled desultorily around the town.

Jan looks suspiciously at the groups of men who now stand desultorily around.

She desultorily picked up four more knives, short ones, for throwing.

It explodes off his boot and runs desultorily out of play.

They asked me desultorily where I had been, and they seemed to believe my story about getting lost on the other end of the island.

But it was so sweet and satisfying lying there talking desultorily with her.

The rest crouched where they were, frightened, desultorily talking, never agreeing to a single action.

He ate the remains of what she had cooked for herself earlier and talked desultorily to her about his day.

A policeman asked a few people in the queue questions which they answered desultorily.

It was just bad timing that Isaac should be obsessed at the same time as her, she thought desultorily.

"Yes, sir," Peter responded desultorily, as the commander walked him to the office door.

The stage doorman desultorily looked up from his paper.

The three wandered desultorily down University Place for a few blocks.

Somewhere out of sight, the barman waited desultorily for them to leave.

Presently she braked herself and began desultorily to clean the walls.

Such plan rules have been unlawful since 1976, but federal regulators police this provision desultorily, if at all.