Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being cursory; slightness or hastiness of view or examination.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being cursory; superficial performance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
cursory
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Examples
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If for no other reason than the cursoriness of the official investigation, questions persisted.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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If for no other reason than the cursoriness of the official investigation, questions persisted.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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If for no other reason than the cursoriness of the official investigation, questions persisted.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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If for no other reason than the cursoriness of the official investigation, questions persisted.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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The records generated under the court order produced a comprehensive encyclopedia of why discipline in the police department is "fundamentally ineffective" - the corroborating of falsehoods among officers, the impotence of civilian oversight, the cursoriness of IAD investigations and investigators 'complicity in not connecting glaring discrepancies.
The Clog 2010
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And perhaps that apparent cursoriness explains some of the more outlandish statements that
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