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Definition of the day : « cursory »
- adj casual, hasty
- He who writes for cursory reading is wise if he writes cursorily.
- Extract from : « The Slave Of The Lamp » by Henry Seton Merriman
- To give more than a cursory description of our impressions is impossible.
- Extract from : « The Pirate of Panama » by William MacLeod Raine
- Desmond made a cursory tour of the walls and passed on into the second room.
- Extract from : « Captain Desmond, V.C. » by Maud Diver
- Hastings stood up, his first, cursory examination concluded.
- Extract from : « No Clue » by James Hay
- After a cursory examination he rose to his feet and pulled Mart up also.
- Extract from : « The Pirate Shark » by Elliott Whitney
- Still our captain was not a man to quit the spot after so cursory an inspection.
- Extract from : « Captain Mugford » by W.H.G. Kingston
- After a cursory look at the boy, she smiled at him and went back to work.
- Extract from : « Stopover » by William Gerken
- To cursory view, John Loveday seemed to accomplish this with amazing ease.
- Extract from : « The Trumpet-Major » by Thomas Hardy
- The coffee house must not be dismissed with a cursory mention.
- Extract from : « The History of England from the Accession of James II. » by Thomas Babington Macaulay
- He gave them a cursory glance, and then his chair turned to pins.
- Extract from : « Black Oxen » by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton