cursory

cursory
    adj 1: hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; "a
           casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the
           house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance";
           "perfunctory courtesy" [syn: {casual}, {cursory},
           {passing(a)}, {perfunctory}]
    

Cursory \Cur"so*ry\ (k?r"s?-r?), a. [L. cursorius, fr. cursor.
   See {Cursor}.]
   1. Running about; not stationary. [Obs.]
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   2. Characterized by haste; hastily or superficially
      performed; slight; superficial; careless.
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            Events far too important to be treated in a cursory
            manner.                               --Hallam.
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117 Moby Thesaurus words for "cursory":
      airy, ankle-deep, at odds, averse, brief, careless, casual, degage,
      depthless, desultory, differing, disagreeing, disinclined,
      disobedient, disregardant, disregardful, easygoing, epidermal,
      expeditious, fast, festinate, feverish, few, flippant, flying,
      footling, forced, forgetful, fractious, free and easy, furious,
      haphazard, hasty, heedless, hurried, immediate, inconsequential,
      inconsiderable, inconsiderate, indifferent, indisposed, indocile,
      insignificant, insouciant, instant, involuntary, jejune, knee-deep,
      last-minute, lazy, light, little, low, meager, miniature, mutinous,
      negligible, no great shakes, not deep, oblivious, offhand,
      on the spot, on the surface, opposed, passing, perfunctory, petty,
      picayune, picayunish, prompt, quick, random, rapid, recalcitrant,
      reckless, refractory, regardless, resistant, respectless, shallow,
      shallow-rooted, shoal, short, sketchy, skin-deep, slap-bang,
      slapdash, slight, small, snap, speedy, sulky, sullen, summary,
      superficial, surface, swift, tactless, thin, thoughtless, tiny,
      trifling, trivial, unconsenting, uncritical, undiplomatic,
      unheedful, unheeding, unmindful, unprepared, unprofound, unready,
      unsolicitous, untactful, unthinking, unwilling, urgent