cursory
Example Sentences
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Several of the chapters, about particle accelerators and fusion reactors, take readers on cursory tours of facilities that have at best a tangential connection to space.
The level of dish THR pulled up on Turner requires a cursory search of publicly accessible information, along with a few phone calls – easily done but something the show’s producers have neglected time and again.
From Salon
Hannie hands him her papers and after a cursory inspection he returns them to her with a polite bow.
From Literature
Officials have to try to turn the administration’s cursory tariff threats on social media into formal trade deals.
From Barron's
And while a cursory examination of the film might ascribe that attribute to the public’s taste for poorly made, mid-tier trash, that conclusion would be wholly incorrect.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
