Definition of "desultory"
adjective
comparative more desultory, superlative most desultory
Jumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another, without order, planning, or rational connection; lacking logical sequence.
Quotations
To mend the matter, Hamlet's aunt had the family failing of indulging in soliloquy, and held forth in a desultory manner, by herself, on every topic that was introduced.
1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 25, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850