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Sentence example with the word 'cursory'
cursory
airy, disagreeing, few, heedless, instant, mutinous, petty, resistant, small, thoughtless, unprofound
Definition
adj.
hasty and without attention to detail
Last update: September 1, 2017
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Give a
cursory
look into the matter.
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Due to time and space constraints, however, only a relatively
cursory
examination of these features was possible.
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Even the most
cursory
of glances revealed that this document is badly flawed.
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She used wax to bind the partially severed ends together, just enough that a
cursory
glance wouldn't disclose what she'd done.
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In this
cursory
and preliminary view, we have, meanwhile, reached our aim.
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After a very
cursory
survey last night, it seemed to belong to the 'coon family.'
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Only a
cursory
examination was necessary to determine that they were quick firers.
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Loder took a
cursory
glance at them, then turned back to Eve.
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His academic education, as we have seen, was of the most
cursory
and intermittent nature.
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At a
cursory
glance he might appear to be a physiological, psychological, and political anachronism.
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Our system of inspection had become
cursory
instead of painstaking.
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