"Desultory" (DES-ul-tor-ee) – from the Latin for "to leap" – means fitful, randomly jumping from one thing to another.
Example (as used by Scott Eyman in a Palm Beach Post review of The Post-War Dream by Mitch Cullin): "We are introduced to Hollis in his bathrobe, a 68-year-old man in good health desultorily reading a Tom Clancy novel, a bottle of Glenfiddich at his side."
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