desultorily

English

Etymology

From desultory +‎ -ly.

Adverb

desultorily (comparative more desultorily, superlative most desultorily)

1. In a desultory fashion.

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

   • 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XXII, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:

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

Translations

in a desultory fashion

• Russian: несвя́зно (ru) n (nesvjázno), отрывочно (ru) n (otryvočno)