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cursory🔊

Hasty or superficial.

📑 Synonyms: fleeting swift
💬 Quotations
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.

Careless or desultory.

📑 Synonyms: unmethodical negligent

(obsolete) Running about; not stationary.

📑 Synonyms: dynamic mobile
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