What's the difference between careless and cursory?

Careless


Definition:

  • (a.) Free from care or anxiety. hence, cheerful; light-hearted.
  • (a.) Having no care; not taking ordinary or proper care; negligent; unconcerned; heedless; inattentive; unmindful; regardless.
  • (a.) Without thought or purpose; without due care; without attention to rule or system; unstudied; inconsiderate; spontaneous; rash; as, a careless throw; a careless expression.
  • (a.) Not receiving care; uncared for.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Careless Herbicidal aerial spray of a field for weed control and defoliation of cotton before machine picking, resulted in the contamination of an adjoining reservoir, killing large volume of fish.
  • (2) Failure to check, lack of vigilance and inattention or carelessness were the most frequently associated factors with the rest of the reports.
  • (3) If at times Van Gaal’s players let themselves down with careless concessions of possession, Carver knew his side had been reprieved when, back to goal, Wayne Rooney controlled the ball on his chest, swivelled and dinked a shot wide.
  • (4) "In this era where we see growing open-mindedness, his actions are muddle-headed and careless," said the letter, which was briefly posted to the internet before it was taken down by censors .
  • (5) Vardy has plenty of other qualities, however, and he played a key role in Leicester’s equaliser early in the second half, racing clear on the right after Wanyama’s careless header and crossing for Musa, who forced the ball past Hugo Lloris at the far post.
  • (6) His carelessness had returned the ball to City's opponents inside his own half twice in the opening quarter of an hour.
  • (7) Concerning the 16 year-old girl the authors think that medical malpractice and carelessness of the parents were involved.
  • (8) By random assignment, the nurses read one of four versions of the rape which varied in terms of whether or not the victim locked her car door (carelessness manipulation) and time of attack (5:00 p.m. or midnight).
  • (9) Like many public figures on the left, he has been far too careless with his favours.
  • (10) He claims the network’s carelessness and conduct with its Cairo-based staff resulted in harassment of al-Jazeera staff, raids on the office and eventually the detention and imprisonment of several staffers.
  • (11) As it is, the team were careless with a comfortable lead in Jamaica (but got away with it ), formidable in their movement against an outclassed Panama , and struggled to get going in the heat and altitude of their game against Honduras .
  • (12) People usually don't make silly, careless mistakes when they're motivated and working in a positive environment.
  • (13) Seventy seven percent of the exposures were seen during routine care, 28.5% were perceived as due to personal carelessness, 19.9% due to patient agitation, 33.5% as inherent to the procedure and 8.9% to abandonment of material.
  • (14) Most burns occurred in teenage boys (6) and all but 1 were the result of carelessness on the part of the burn victim.
  • (15) Blatant carelessness, misuse or improper maintenance of equipment, and intoxication are analyzed as contributory factors.
  • (16) What has happened, of course, is something entirely different – and the callously careless attitude of western governments to this has given the impression of western complicity to many (who are already steeped in a culture of conspiracy theories) in Iraq and the Middle East.
  • (17) As a German European, I am disappointed by the mixture of incapability and carelessness back home.
  • (18) The government’s response has been shamefully poor, marked by carelessness for the lives of ordinary people, and only really concerned with damage control and trying to ensure this does not affect the flow of investment,” said Edgardo Buscaglia, a leading expert in international organised crime and political corruption around the world.
  • (19) Wenger talked about his side committing "easy mistakes" and he might easily have been referring to Özil's carelessness before the goal that made it 3-1, playing a senseless pass to Mathieu Flamini, then watching Fernandinho steal in to bend a wonderful shot beyond Wojciech Szczesny.
  • (20) "From being driven, careless, impulsive, the new breed of shopper is a very careful spender.

Cursory


Definition:

  • (a.) Running about; not stationary.
  • (a.) Characterized by haste; hastily or superficially performed; slight; superficial; careless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All of these are accomplished simultaneously with a cursory survey to identify immediately life-threatening injuries and to prevent permanent disability.
  • (2) It is clear that any investigations they have conducted have been cursory.
  • (3) A cursory web search would have helped but fewer of us bother when the news is relatively inconsequential.
  • (4) A cursory glance at human history suggests otherwise.
  • (5) A cursory trawl reveals a long list of employment tribunals and strikes by low-paid workers in these outsourcing companies.
  • (6) Further, it only takes a cursory look at Hizb ut-Tahrir’s website to see that they are embroiled in a bitter and ongoing feud with Isis.
  • (7) The statements to this point only give a cursory review of the beginning (20 years) of the kinetic approach to the classification of lipoproteins and subsystems which are involved in their synthesis and metabolism.
  • (8) Morphological differences are primarily related to locomotor patterns as reflected in the degree of cursoriality displayed by bovids in different habitats.
  • (9) In the past, says Hogan, they tended only to give them a cursory glance.
  • (10) Writer Feargus O’Sullivan thinks of the presence of artists and creative workers as adding a “cursory sheen to a place’s transformation”, describing the process as “ artwashing ”.
  • (11) But it was as much their mistakes as those of Moyes that led them to Tuesday's cursory announcement .
  • (12) In this chapter, while we review in a cursory way the older findings with glucocorticoid hormones, we concentrate on the newer developments which suggest that leukocyte- and pituitary-derived ACTH and endorphins perform regulatory functions within and between the immune system and the pituitary-adrenocortical axis.
  • (13) Yes, the ad included such issues as agriculture and the environment, but only the most cursory mention.
  • (14) The UK's cursory submission to the commission is in fact based on a February 2012 report titled Creating the Conditions for Integration .
  • (15) If anyone doubts that people do not care enough about wildlife then a cursory look at the emails, tweets, letters and calls that have flooded into the RSPB in recent days will open their eyes.
  • (16) The text which has to be easily understandable, mentions: a cursory description of the clinical signs of the different decompression accidents the measures which have to be taken in each case, depending on: the moment of the emergency: after or during decompression, the presence of an insufficient decompression, or a "blow-up".
  • (17) We didn’t actually fully investigate them, we just made a cursory visit and went back to all of our keyboards looking at everybody’s emails and text messages.
  • (18) I don’t think that a cursory look at the budget is enough for people to understand what we’re really getting at.
  • (19) According to one survey, just 4% of women do this, and a cursory glance around the globe hints it is not exactly common practice elsewhere.
  • (20) This is only a cursory view of the complexities one encounters when attempting to understand women, how and why they behave the way they do, how they respond to the health care system, what some of their influences are, and what we must all do together to help them help themselves and us, to provide them with a longer, more productive, rewarding and healthy life span.