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desultory

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Adj — Moving between subjects or activities with no clear plan or order.

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From Latin dēsultōrius (“hasty, casual, superficial”), from dēsultor (“a circus rider who jumped from one galloping horse to another”), from dēsiliō (“jump down”), made up of dē (“down”) and saliō (“jump, leap”).

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