Crossword-Solution: CURSORY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cursory | a. | Running about; not stationary. |
| Cursory | a. | Characterized by haste; hastily or superficially performed; slight; superficial; careless. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “CURSORY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Superficial, as a look | 1 answer |
| Not thorough | 1 answer |
| Like a quick glance | 1 answer |
| Hastily done. | 1 answer |
| Get-it-over-with-quick | 1 answer |
| perfunctory | 14 answers |
| speeding by | 42 answers |
| flashing by | 42 answers |
| to pass | 49 answers |
| Facile | 53 answers |
| Superficial | 64 answers |
| Hasty | 66 answers |
| Passing | 68 answers |
| Fugitive | 68 answers |
| Brief | 83 answers |
| Haste | 86 answers |
| Quick | 89 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CURSORY (5)
However, the transcriptions receive a cursory check for obvious typos, the misspellings of proper names, and other errors from the WPP CD-ROM editor.
The strength and weaknesses of the West African economy can be seen by a cursory glance at a list of its main exports and imports.
The incident gave me considerable food for speculation, since if I were right in the conclusion induced by the cursory glimpse I had had of the spy, then Matai Shang and Thurid must suspect my identity, and if that were true not even the service I had rendered Kulan Tith could save me from his religious fanaticism.
Max gave the paper transfer a cursory exami- nation, at least asked the questions that were meaningless to the transformed Pierre, and gave the deal his irrelevant blessings.
Had not something been left out? Was not the whole affair cursory, superficial? It was disappointing.
Quotes with CURSORY (3)
The most cursory examination of even the most progressive organs of information reveals a curious inability to recognize women as newsmakers, unless they are young or married to a head of state or naked or pregnant by some triumph of technology or perpetrators or victims of some hideous crime or any combiniation of the above. Women's issues are often disguised as people issues, unless they are relegated to the women's pages which amazingly still suvive. Senior figures are all…
If you throw even a cursory glance into the past, at the life which lies behind you, not even recalling its most vivid moments, you are struck every time by the singularity of the events in which you took part, the unique individuality of the characters whom you met. This singularity is like the dominant note of every moment of existence; in each moment of life, the life principle itself is unique. The artist therefore tries to grasp that principle and make it incarnate, new …
The mess we are making of our planet is caused by our own greed, hatred, and delusion. Aside from the existential afflictions of aging, death, and at least some of the illnesses, every instance we see of human misery, injustice, affliction. or sufficient and pain will, upon sufficient and sometimes even cursory investigation, be shown to be rooted in the attachment, aversion, or ignorance of some person or some group of people together.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1960–2023).