cursory

How To Use cursory In A Sentence

• Burke cast a cursory glance at the menu, then flapped it shut.
• The amendments to the Armed Forces Act include a provision under which the contracts of the professional soldiers would include a paragraph for precursory agreement for participation in missions abroad.
• Too many high-risk prisoners are set loose after cursory checks, sometimes just a quick phone call. The Sun
• It had emerged that security badges at the base were obsolete and could be copied easily, while identity and vehicle checks were cursory at best. Times, Sunday Times
• He put aside the papers after a cursory study.
• Though I can make a cursory record, a quick sketch of those first sensations and impressions that flood the traveler, I find these jottings to be incomplete - just notes.
• A cursory listen reveals that the first version closely resembles Nashville's, from a musical standpoint.
• Ellis agrees that "that sequence does seem kind of cursory" – but only, he goes on, because Clay is so numbly affectless that even rape and torture would look banal to him. Bret Easton Ellis: 'So you're a misogynist, a racist – so what? Does it make your art less interesting?'
• Also, a brief overview of the story is contained, but it is cursory and superficially overviewed here, and doesn't spoil or resolve anything.
• Critics of the system say that only the most cursory checks are carried out on the background of applicants. Times, Sunday Times