Cursory Definition

kûrsə-rē
adjective
Hastily, often superficially, done; performed rapidly with little attention to detail.
Webster's New World

Hasty; superficial; careless.

Most junk mail requires only a cursory glance.
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Origin of Cursory

  • From Middle French cursoire (“rapid”), from Latin cursorius (“hasty, of a race or running”)

    From Wiktionary

  • Late Latin cursōrius of running from Latin cursor runner cursor

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Cursory Sentence Examples

  • After a cursory look, she moved on.

  • She used wax to bind the partially severed ends together, just enough that a cursory glance wouldn't disclose what she'd done.

  • Dean located Jonathan Winston and relat­ed what Fred had seen but it was clear the FBI officer doubted the identification and gave only a cursory nod and a promise to look into it.

  • They do not stand up to even cursory inspection.

  • But Luxemburg, riding up with his advanced guard from Velaine, decided, after a cursory survey of the ground, to attack the front and both flanks of the Allies' position at once - a decision which few, if any, generals then living would have dared to make, and which of itself places Luxemburg in the same rank as a tactician as his old friend and commander Conde.

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