One word

Desultory

Word of the day on 23 April 2010.

Winning tweet

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kado56
I had a tendency to view life as a sort of desultory game of hopscotch until.....I stepped on a crack

Good uses

  • SJHatzi
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    And when he's near, I -bedazzled- rattle off like a desultory fool; when all I want is for him to think me beautiful & cool.
  • baccatum
    78
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    Practice desultory acts of kindness, and irrational acts of beauty.
  • TiddK
    77
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    Dawn. White-flecked breakers clutch at the sand, desultory seabirds screech & dive. I feel desolate.. and yet, beautiful too.
  • Tralala56
    69
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    When the ringmaster accused Madge of being desultory, she took it very personally. Aimless, indeed! She sharpened her knives in a rage.
  • OddlyStarry
    64
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    Come meander through life with me. Let's have desultory chats as we sip wine by the glow of a warm fire...
  • StarOfSavannah
    63
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    Fragmented self/ Alienated girl/ Desultory me/ My reflection in a shattered mirror/ Mercurial temper steady as the wind
  • agezoko
    62
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    The holiday of the early summer which holds a cat and carries out desultory reading in the room whose sea is visible. #artwiculate
  • mazpow
    60
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    I used to read novels. Then age and motherhood fried my brain. Now 140 characters is the limit for my desultory conciousness.
  • lithiumzombie
    56
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    Shakespearean desultory: 'O Romeo, Benvolio, wherefore art thou Tybalt?'
  • DrMobs
    55
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    So, if I say my aim is desultory, does that mean I've definitively missed the point? Oh look, a butterfly!
  • ultracutebot
    54
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    desultory cacophony ~ jarring epiphany ~ sensory catastrophe #sixwords #artwiculate #QTbot
  • silverne
    54
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    If you want to see me/ look at your sage and careless cat/ on the desultory reflect of his left eye/ I dwell permanency
  • pranavmukul
    53
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    Desultory : He came, he saw, he dithered.
  • DaveCurry
    52
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    Desultory diner mantra? We aimless to please. #artwiculate
  • navinsasikumar
    52
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    On my back,I idly lie/Watch desultory clouds float gently by/When thru a gap,the sun it smiles/Bedazzled,I shut my eyes
  • harrarp
    52
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    A desultory caveat: if you cannot ride more than one horse at a time, you shouldn't join the circus.
  • Wifsie
    50
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    I will let this desultory journey bedazzle me: I throw away expectations and conformation; my only guide is my heart. #artwiculate
  • tama001
    50
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    made sport of by fortune ? / swayed by trend of the times ? / change the desultory destiny. #artwiculate
  • dmriver
    50
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    Some of what I say is desultory, your guess is as good as mine. :-)
  • asim7asim
    48
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    butterflies bright ~ tonic for my heart ~ desultory I sat ~ till I espied ~ your beautiful hues #artwiculate
  • BurningHawk1969
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    Desultory Barbie, surrounded by her beautiful play worlds, still hollow inside. #artwiculate
  • goldenskye
    47
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    Q. Why did you take so much luggage for such a short holiday? A. I packed for desultory weather.
  • catmar604
    47
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    Tripping into a stream of consciousness~Turning over stones,finding flotsam to finesse~Tame less,desultory!Be dazzled,no less
  • tWordBird
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    The early bird's desultory hunt is ruled by scent, not scintilla - she doesn't need to be bedazzled, but likes worms which smell of vanilla.
  • ale_bundy
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    Bedazzled denouement? A moth through the flame, burned by desultory. #artwiculate
  • MalleyScrubber
    43
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    Percy the Angry Penguin caught no worms, just a dose of Chlamydia from a desultory fling with a chick two floes over
  • LBY3
    43
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    @artwiculate I'm not sure how to write a tweet including "desultory" ... oh, look, a puppy!
  • nedmw
    41
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    Staring into the heavens, he discerns shapes of animals and men, whilst others see only the desultory peg board of stars #artwiculate
  • gBaYgUrL
    41
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    A desultory meeting, bedazzled in thought. Rush of feelings, infatuation he brought. Take this dance, might be ur last chance
  • minibtweet
    40
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    Desultory ideas only become effective with a mind mapping chart #artwiculate
  • marcosarroyos
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    When a fight broke out in the prison yard, Mando wielded his shank in such a desultory manner that everyone backed off.
  • MaxRaunchiness
    40
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    Chase splendid ladies / Flamboyant words and actions / Desultory life #haikuwordgame
  • lagadu123
    39
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    I was quite flattered really when the accountant said my book-keeping was desultory.
  • HourlyDavidson
    39
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    desultory pattern : zig~zag
  • Squawkingalah
    39
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    Switching between work and #artwiculate is a desultory way to spend the day. (Drop the work, I say.)
  • TheSupercargo
    38
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    Let me deliver a simple desultory philippic about Katherine Minola and how she bedazzled me into submission. #simonshakesaspeare
  • OpelDHell
    38
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    her math was so desultory, she counted in random numbers #artwiculate
  • nimue_
    37
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    i suppose i was~a Desultory lover~till you came along #haikuchallenge #haiku #artwiculate
  • Ysabeluna
    37
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    desultory philanthropy : passing kindness forward
  • Awdures
    36
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    Desultory leaves, undecided in the wind, tousled in torment #haiku #artwiculate <desultory>
  • TSupercargo
    36
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    Bedazzled as ever by the wit of the Artwiculati, I prepare to take my desultory promenade through some of my top choice tweets of the day.
  • aarthycrazy
    36
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    Lust fades in desultory glades; Love alone lasts, even in Hades - #artwiculate #love
  • MaryJenkins
    35
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    Shall I compare thee to a bedazzled cloth? Thou art more sparkly than the desultory gems placed in such an ever-fix'd design. @SJHatzi
  • beezknez
    35
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    He watched his true self / a desultory image / emerged and mirrored / #haiku #poetry
  • dsceiorg
    35
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    Collective nouns: A bed of snakes; A knot of toads; A desultory of political promises. #artwiculate
  • lexiconehead
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    I'm too desultory for my shirt.
  • urbancrafter
    34
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    desultory decisions :: mistakes and missteps :: crimson regrets #artwiculate #theprompt
  • celticgladiator
    34
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    desultory thoughts, my mind falls apart. Mesmerized, hypnotized, you bedazzled my heart.
  • OldJoeStalin
    34
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    When it came to criticizing me, my ex-wife's mother seized on anything. She was desultory.

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