desultorily

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Adverb

desultorily

1. In a desultory fashion

   She had been working desultorily on her book for several years.

   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, ch. 22

     I read a page here and there, and made acquaintance with a great many authors whom I was content to know thus desultorily.

Translations

• Russian: несвя́зно

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