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CURSORILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cursorily mean?
• CURSORILY (adverb)
The adverb CURSORILY has 1 sense:
1. without taking pains
Familiarity information: CURSORILY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Without taking pains
Synonyms:
cursorily; quickly
Context example:
he looked cursorily through the magazine
Pertainym:
cursory (hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough)
Context examples
I noticed these objects cursorily only—in them there was nothing extraordinary.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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