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Definition of cursory:
Synonyms:
rash, incomplete, overhasty, desultory, precipitate, passing, gadarene, outstanding, hurried, study at superficial, drive-by, casual, headlong, helter-skelter, quick, unfinished, rushed, slight, abortive, pending, careless, undone, perfunctory, flying, precipitous, pell-mell, one-dimensional, sketchy, partial, light-touch, uncritical.
- shallow (part of speech: adjective)
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transient (part of speech: adjective)
- flitting,
- restless,
- temporary,
- short-lived,
- transitory,
- flickering,
- fading,
- mutable,
- temporal,
- brief,
- transient,
- instantaneous,
- passing,
- impermanent,
- ephemeral,
- rootless,
- fickle,
- short-term,
- mortal,
- fleeting,
- momentary,
- volatile,
- evanescent,
- changeable,
- shifting
Usage examples:
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Pitt had but a cursory glance at the face, but it was enough to make him follow the owner of it.
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Hermann drew from his pocket a bank- note and handed it to Chekalinsky, who, after examining it in a cursory manner, placed it on Hermann's card.
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The crisis was so pressing that we simply did not have the time to create a separate force of our own; the most cursory examination of conditions convinced me that we could hope to accomplish something worth while only by playing the game as it was then being played, and that any attempt to lay down new rules would inevitably decrease the effectiveness of our co- operation, and perhaps result in losing the war.
