cursory
IPA: kˈɝsɝi
adjective
- Hasty or superficial.
- Careless or desultory.
- (obsolete) Running about; not stationary.
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Examples of "cursory" in Sentences
- Their knowledge is cursory.
- I've only given in the most cursory of glances.
- Not even a cursory reference is made by the USPS to the idea.
- From a cursory glance, I'd question the weight of the review.
- Principal Steve Perry doesn't believe in cursory inspections.
- I'm in the middle of a cursory cleanup of the IPA on Wikipedia.
- I think the article is cursory and lacks context to understand the law.
- From a cursory glance at the rest, there appears to be more of the same.
- I only have a cursory understanding of what the 'theory of the firm' is.
- The definition comported with a cursory inspection of available online sources.
- The students were asked to sign what was described as a cursory three-page consent form.
- Giving a detailed answer to all of them, even in cursory fashion, would make a small volume.
- Indeed, most of the instances of the term a cursory Google search of whitehouse. gov uncovers come in questions from the media
- The Vermont senator said the Obama Administration's review of the earlier decision to stand apart from the treaty "can only be described as cursory and half-hearted."
- Ellis agrees that "that sequence does seem kind of cursory" – but only, he goes on, because Clay is so numbly affectless that even rape and torture would look banal to him.
- Sen. Patrick Leahy said the decision constituted a 'default of U.S. leadership' and charged that it appeared to be based on a review that 'can only be described as cursory and half-hearted'.
- Sun Mar 22, 2009 at 09: 59: 47 AM EDT wrote this morning what could generously be described as a cursory look at the Indiana Toll Road, hesitating just long enough from a wide-eyed respect of Gov.
- The vast majority of them are illiterate and slap on a uniform after receiving what can only charitably be described as cursory instruction in military tactics and the handling of an assault rifle.
- Mr. Cook played better than he has ever done for England, dominating as he rarely has before, passing 150 and 200 with the kind of cursory celebrations that indicated he was intent on scoring, as he put it, a daddy hundred.
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