The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cursorily \Cur"so*ri*ly\ (k?r"s?-r?-l?), adv. In a running or hasty manner; carelessly.
Wiktionary
adv. In a cursory manner.
WordNet
adv. without taking pains; "he looked cursorily through the magazine" [syn: quickly]
Usage examples of "cursorily".
There was no reason, none whatsoever, to expect an attack from behind, from the reaches of extraplanetary space to which the locals had never aspired, and which they had only cursorily explored with simple automated scientific instruments.
They nodded at each other cursorily, then Fagin stepped off and scanned the clearing again, as though looking for a good place to spit.
To her I was first presented, and cursorily scrutinised with a stately old-fashioned insolence, as if I were a candidate footman, and so dismissed.
Cursorily, one would say that its respiration apparatus handled oxygen rather than carbon dioxide, and there were odd evidences of air-storage chambers and methods of shifting respiration from the external orifice to at least two other fully developed breathing systems - gills and pores.