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adjective

Cursory adj.

Running about; not stationary. (Obs.)

Characterized by haste; hastily or superficially performed; slight; superficial; careless. "Events far too important to be treated in a cursory manner."

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Etymology of 'Cursory'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cursory" Quotes from Famous Books

... large holdings of public lands to put them to their most productive use, and it is said with truth that this best use is the tillage of small areas by small owners. Unfortunately, the facts and this theory disagree. Even the most cursory examination of large holdings throughout the West will refute the contention that the intelligent self-interest of large owners results promptly and directly in the making of homes. Few passions of the human mind are stronger than ...

— The Fight For Conservation • Gifford Pinchot

... cursory view of one side of the gallery, I turned myself to that which was filled by the works of those great masters that were dead; when immediately I fancied myself standing before a multitude of spectators, and thousands ...

— Essays and Tales • Joseph Addison

... a bird. She was one of those elfin, rather precocious little girls, quick coloured, with dark hair, naturally curling dusky hair that was sometimes astray over her eyes, and eyes that were sometimes impishly dark, and sometimes a clear brown yellow. And from the very outset, after a most cursory attention to Rabbits, she decided that the only really interesting thing at ...

— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells

... Having in this cursory manner, introduced the subject of the following pages, I proceed to the narration of a life that has been viewed with attention, for a great number of years by a few, and which will be read by the public the mixed sensations of pleasure ...

— A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison • James E. Seaver

... at all for several weeks and had seen her but little for a year, but her off-hand cursory manner had not altered in the interval. She spoke remarkably fast, as if speech were not in itself a pleasure—to have it over as soon as possible; and her brusquerie was of the dark shade friendly critics account for by ...

— The Tragic Muse • Henry James

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