Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a running or hasty manner; slightly; hastily; without close attention or thoroughness: as, I read the paper cursorily.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a running or hasty manner; carelessly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
cursory manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb without taking pains
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Examples
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Mr de Klerk said he had spoken "cursorily" to Mr Mandela and Mr Mandela had given him certain assurances about details "which convinces me we will be able to reach some kind of consensus on this issue".
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Anyone who has ever studied history, however cursorily, is familiar with the famous saying of Spanish philosopher George Santayana, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
David Isenberg: Every Day, In Every Way, Accountability Is Not Getting Better David Isenberg 2011
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This has neglected the essential role of what is sometimes dismissed rather cursorily as "back office".
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I live in my heart and in my head, sir -- not in this feeble carcass I cursorily inhabit.
CHAPTER XXI 2010
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In that context the Time's article makes a muted aside to the administration's newly formed 'Oil and Gas Price Fraud Working Group' cursorily quoting Attorney General Holder, "Fraud or manipulation must not be allowed to prevent price decreases."
Raymond J. Learsy: The New York Times Pumps for Higher Oil/Gas Prices Raymond J. Learsy 2011
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Anyone who has ever studied history, however cursorily, is familiar with the famous saying of Spanish philosopher George Santayana, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
David Isenberg: Every Day, In Every Way, Accountability Is Not Getting Better David Isenberg 2011
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Owsley Stanley, one of the first and best known of the freelance makers of LSD, cursorily dismisses the Brotherhood, calling its members a “bunch of loose cannons on a ship of fools.”
Book Review: Orange Sunshine by Nicholas Schou « A Progressive on the Prairie 2010
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Anyone who has ever studied history, however cursorily, is familiar with the famous saying of Spanish philosopher George Santayana, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
David Isenberg: Every Day, In Every Way, Accountability Is Not Getting Better David Isenberg 2011
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Owsley Stanley, one of the first and best known of the freelance makers of LSD, cursorily dismisses the Brotherhood, calling its members a “bunch of loose cannons on a ship of fools.”
A Progressive on the Prairie » Book Review: Orange Sunshine by Nicholas Schou » Print 2010
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Anyone who has ever studied history, however cursorily, is familiar with the famous saying of Spanish philosopher George Santayana, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
David Isenberg: Every Day, In Every Way, Accountability Is Not Getting Better David Isenberg 2011
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