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cursory
adjective
(cur-so-ry)
hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
Synonyms:
casual
,
passing
,
perfunctory
,
superficial
,
Examples:
A casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws.
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perfunctory
,
casual
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passing
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careless
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brief
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quick
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,
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,
mere
,
shallow
,
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,
simple
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,
frivolous
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prompt
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short
,
timely
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,
swift
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rapid
,
early
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transient
,
surface
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rough
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volatile
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fast
,
rapidly
,
above-ground
,
cross-
,
low-level
,
thorough
,
exhaustive
,
desultory
,
scant
,
halfhearted
,
rudimentary
,
slapdash
,
dismissive
,
haphazard
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conclusive
,
innocuous
,
prosaic
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uninformative
,
simplistic
,
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,
succinct
,
lengthy
,
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,
preliminary
,
banal
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indepth
,
sketchiest
,
damning
,
briefest
,
voluminous
,
unrevealing
,
fulsome
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percursory
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substantive
,
detailed
,
dispassionate
,
anthropological
,
pertinent
,
empirical
,
incomprehensive
,
tendentious
,
thoroughgoing
,
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,
unexceptionable
,
sociological
,
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textual
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,
cogent
,
contemporaneous
,
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,
unscholarly
,
substantiative
,
vaguest
,
pedantic
,
inferential
,
scholarly
,
superfluous
,
grudging
,
trenchant
,
disobliging
,
obligatory
,
mundane
,
condescending
,
hagiographic
,
obtuse
,
unilluminating
,
encyclopedic
,
humerous
,
glib
,
elaborative
,
cursory
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