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cursory

Speech parts

1. cursory - Adjective

2. cursory - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Running about; not stationary.

Characterized by haste; hastily or superficially performed; slight; superficial; careless.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests. Henry Miller

Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance. Jean Cocteau

The most cursory look at cold-reading and suggestion tells us that Tarot cards are not evil; psychics do not ‘usher in' the Devil or his minions; and even the creepy old Ouija board can be shown to operate via quite everyday, natural, physical forces. Derren Brown

If you're going to do Chuck Berry, you got to, you know, go all out, and the duck walk is just kind of you know, cursory. That's like standing. Mos Def

'Days of Our Lives' was an insane schedule. You're doing a whole one-hour show in a day. You do a very cursory run-through with the director telling you where you're going to be standing, then you do a quick rehearsal on camera and you shoot it. Charles Shaughnessy

Cursory inspection of the world suggests it is a giant complex with dense connections between its parts. We cannot cope with it in that form and are forced to reduce it to some separate areas which we can examine separately'. .. Peter Checkland

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