cursory
going rapidly over something, without noticing details; hasty; superficial: a cursory glance at a newspaper article.
Origin of cursory
1Other words for cursory
Other words from cursory
- cur·so·ri·ly, adverb
- cur·so·ri·ness, noun
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How to use cursory in a sentence
Public health experts said the health department could have taken several measures to begin to address the concerns raised in the air-quality studies, including conducting a cursory examination of health trends.
“A Complete Failure of the State”: Authorities Didn’t Heed Researchers’ Calls to Study Health Effects of Burning Sugar Cane | by Lulu Ramadan, The Palm Beach Post | August 19, 2021 | ProPublicaA cursory Google search will bring up several fear-inducing articles that discuss the dangers of full-face snorkels, and they all relate to CO2.
The best full face snorkel mask for all your aquatic adventures | Florie Korani | July 26, 2021 | Popular-ScienceIn Wu’s book, Apple barely makes an appearance, and in Senator Amy Klobuchar’s new book, Antitrust, which is a ringing call for remaking and enforcing anti-monopolization policy, the discussions of Apple seem more cursory than central to her thesis.
What does breaking up Big Tech really mean? | James Surowiecki | June 30, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewAt the same time, our cursory understanding of these obscure worlds has expanded tremendously.
The best places to find extraterrestrial life in our solar system, ranked | Neel V. Patel | June 16, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewAgain, the argument is basically that a guy dealing with a pandemic was too cursory and uninterested in the theory.
Taking to the Internet for a cursory search of this world reveals hundreds of videos of home-based animal breeding systems.
The Weird Underground World of Urban Animal Husbandry | Dale Eisinger | May 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAfter a cursory read-through, Walsh offered him a part in The Big Trail.
A New Biography Shows That ‘John Wayne’ Was His Own Best Creation | Christopher Bray | April 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA cursory inspection of available podcasts was unable to reveal the reason for the difficulty with iTunes.
At the time, many in the audience only had a cursory knowledge of comic books.
The Rise of Superhero Therapy: Comic Books as Psychological Treatment | Alex Suskind | February 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTUnless some kind of sky-high musical chairs ensues, anything more than a cursory pre-potty hello could become a little tricky.
Wingman, an App for Hookups at 30,000 Feet, Wants To Be the Tinder of Airline Travel | Charlotte Lytton | February 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWe had not time enough to walk over the gardens; but, from a cursory view of them, did not much regret our loss.
The natural history of these provinces would be an inexhaustible subject: the cursory traveller can only describe generally.
Lyons appeared to me, from the cursory information which I could obtain, to be as cheap as any town in France.
The most cursory study of history would reveal the falseness of this contention.
Secret Societies And Subversive Movements | Nesta H. WebsterIn order to introduce this story, it will be requisite to take a cursory view of some previous occurrences.
Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I | Francis Augustus Cox
British Dictionary definitions for cursory
/ (ˈkɜːsərɪ) /
hasty and usually superficial; quick: a cursory check
Origin of cursory
1Derived forms of cursory
- cursorily, adverb
- cursoriness, noun
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