Sentence examples for cursory are from inspiring English sources

At times the reader even wonders if he is really a detective at all, so cursory are his descriptions of his work.

Dear America, A cursory glance at Monday night's Canadian federal election results (and cursory is probably the best you'll get outside of the True North strong and free) might give you the impression that after years of flirting with social and economic conservatism, our formerly progressive country had finally decided it was time to go steady.

A review of this area, no matter how cursory, is well beyond the scope of this paper.

Consequently, only cursory efforts are made to texturally characterize limestones and dolomites.

Records from the hearings show that only a cursory effort was made to reach them.

Only cursory attention is given to the limitations of what a school can reasonably be expected to achieve on its own.

Perhaps the fact they have not yet tried to explain their approach to this saga beyond a cursory statement is also simple.

Another kind that that probably needs only cursory recognition is "doubting".

This cursory perspective is understandable, given that the majority of its participants were indeed black.

Our cursory impression was that this is not the case.

As shown here, cursory examination is inadequate if it leads to paradoxical and potentially misleading results.