He wandered round, cleaning up in a desultory way.

The Benelux Customs Union came into effect on January 1st 1948, and there followed desultory conversations between the Benelux countries, France and Italy over projects to extend such cooperation across a larger space.

‘Your desultory twenties,’ my mother calls my lost time, trying to make it sound reasonable and fun, but it started before I was twenty and lasted much longer.

I made a desultory remark while I was talking to my friend.

She made a desultory attempt at conversation.

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