DESULTORILY Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

desultorily

adverb

Definition of desultorily

as in randomly

without definite aim, direction, rule, or method sat watching the movie, desultorily eating popcorn

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randomly

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The researchers analyzed 551 female patients across 73 hospitals in China who were randomly assigned to receive either the drug intravenously every three weeks, or the physician’s choice of chemotherapy.

— Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2026
In it, Stanford University psychologist Philip Zimbardo had 24 male college students randomly assigned to play guards or inmates in a mock prison to see how power structures could affect the behavior of ordinary people.

— Frank Landymore, Futurism, 29 Oct. 2026

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