It was obvious by the sloppiness that the project was done in a cursory manner. From LearnThat.org.
A casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Principal Steve Perry doesn't believe in cursory inspections. From Wordnik.com. [POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: July 23, 2009] Reference
Giving a detailed answer to all of them, even in cursory fashion, would make a small volume. From Wordnik.com. [When A Map Is Worth a Thousand Words « Antiwar.com Blog] Reference
Indeed, most of the instances of the term a cursory Google search of whitehouse. gov uncovers come in questions from the media. From Wordnik.com. [Signifying Nothing] Reference
The students were asked to sign what was described as a cursory three-page consent form. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
Any kind of cursory inspection of the machine would not reveal it. '. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Diebold's Deliberate Security Vulnerability!] Reference
Asserting that the book is "cursory" and not "serious," he removes examples from their context and sometimes falls into error himself. From Wordnik.com. [Art & Society] Reference
An agent also wrote notes about "cursory" visual inspections of the house. From Wordnik.com. [Ventura County Star Stories] Reference
Plus I'm not sure you used "cursory" correctly. did you mean say "underwhelming"?. From Wordnik.com. [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference
The government needs to keep a kind of cursory eye on organizations to look for signs of radicalization. From Wordnik.com. [Booman Tribune] Reference
"cursory" details included from Heather and Melissa Pinheiro. From Wordnik.com. [North South Brunswick Sentinel] Reference
Any kind of cursory inspection of the machine would not reveal it. "'. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Diebold's Deliberate Security Vulnerability!] Reference
"cursory" examination that didn't even include a close visual inspection. From Wordnik.com. [ROBERT KANE] Reference
And I know it's more than a cursory wipe of a rag she's after. From Wordnik.com. [Bedbugs] Reference
Even the most cursory examination of evidence is now too much to ask. From Wordnik.com. [Didn't see that coming] Reference
After a cursory examination, the quack doctor rendered his diagnosis. From Wordnik.com. [How Dr. Keynes Will Kill The Patient] Reference
None of these concerns stands up to even the most cursory examination. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Schweitzer: A Pyrrhic Victory for Demagoguery] Reference
But the report's results fail to pass even the most cursory of inspections. From Wordnik.com. [Delhi's Fake Drug Whitewash] Reference
Sometimes the silence is the worst; other times cursory statements are worse. From Wordnik.com. [Lane Hudson: POTUS' part-time principles] Reference
She gives me a cursory once over; it's clear her interrogative is meant for Greg. From Wordnik.com. [What Remains II] Reference
Even a cursory reading of the canonical Gospels shows a very positive view of women and faith. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
Freed of her paralysis, she made a quick, cursory survey of the library but saw no sign of him. From Wordnik.com. [Paper Hearts] Reference
If these major incidents did not trigger even an initial cursory report, what else was left out?. From Wordnik.com. [Erica Gaston: What's Missing from the Wikileaks Afghanistan Logs] Reference
He gave each bill a cursory inspection and then paid 225,000 Thai baht for the American hundreds. From Wordnik.com. [Is It Real, Or Super K?] Reference
E-mails are letters, after all, more lasting than phone calls, even if many of them r 2 cursory 4 u. From Wordnik.com. [Write For Your Life] Reference
There is a cursory feel to this novel, an absence of the sort of energy that fueled the earlier books. From Wordnik.com. [The Enigmatic Face of Terror] Reference
Two weeks later Mitsubishi sent him a cursory report stating that its engineers found no "abnormality.". From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Files] Reference
But a cursory examination of the claim reveals some flaws in Moore's arithmetic -- not to mention his logic. From Wordnik.com. [Terror Watch: More Distortions From Michael Moore] Reference
They didn't just give us cursory face time; they coached us intensively and did their best to improve our game. From Wordnik.com. [Batting for the Cure] Reference
But the following night, at the finals, his first two appeared to be only the wan stuff of a cursory valedictory. From Wordnik.com. [Touching Down] Reference
If you want to go really big - 65-inches and above - it might make sense to take a cursory look at some of these sets. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
Both of them attended but Hill was not permitted to have substantive, or even cursory, discussions with his counterpart. From Wordnik.com. [So Far, So Fast] Reference
There was only a hurried, cursory "" sweep '' in the days before Dole's self-imposed deadline for announcing his choice. From Wordnik.com. [Just The Ticket?] Reference
A cursory reading shows it to be a more measured, better reasoned, better substantiated version of the preliminary memo. From Wordnik.com. [Inside the 'Nickles Report' on juvenile justice] Reference
Three years ago when it went out as a TV series, I gave Wood's book a cursory and not particularly complimentary mention. From Wordnik.com. [Don't travel without them] Reference
Alas, even a cursory overview of Vietnam's experience suggests that it would be a difficult if not impossible fit for Cuba. From Wordnik.com. [Between Hanoi And Havana] Reference
Yet congressional investigators later found that the FBI investigation of right-wing Cuban groups had been at best cursory. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Cover-Up] Reference
A cursory review of his life story shows how often Chávez has benefited from rivals who underestimated him as a blustery buffoon. From Wordnik.com. [Down, Not Out] Reference
Investigators disagree on testing methods, like whether cursory air samples or visual inspections are the better way to spot a problem. From Wordnik.com. [Cleaning Up The House] Reference
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