What does cursory mean?
Cursory means Hasty or superficial..
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/ˈkɜː.sə.ɹi/ · adjective
Hasty or superficial..
cursory glance
A cursory view of the report revealed his egregious errors.
Most junk mail requires only a cursory glance.
But the cursory glance my father had taken of my volume by no means assured me that he was acquainted with its contents, and I continued to read with the greatest avidity.
She accepted these terms, and slid off on the near side, though not till he had stolen a cursory kiss.
I may say that that single cursory examination of this awful travesty on Nature would have proved quite sufficient to my desires had I been a free agent.
The cursory inspection missed several irregularities.
Use cursory when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cursory means Hasty or superficial..
Common synonyms include fleeting, swift, cursory, express.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
cursory glance
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