Use of the word cursory in a sentence example

cursory

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Give a cursory look into the matter. [adjective]

Due to time and space constraints, however, only a relatively cursory examination of these features was possible. [adjective]

Even the most cursory of glances revealed that this document is badly flawed. [adjective]

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

In this cursory and preliminary view, we have, meanwhile, reached our aim. [Please select]

After a very cursory survey last night, it seemed to belong to the 'coon family.' [Please select]

Only a cursory examination was necessary to determine that they were quick firers. [Please select]

Loder took a cursory glance at them, then turned back to Eve. [Please select]

His academic education, as we have seen, was of the most cursory and intermittent nature. [Please select]

At a cursory glance he might appear to be a physiological, psychological, and political anachronism. [Please select]

Our system of inspection had become cursory instead of painstaking. [Please select]

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