to toy with ——. intransitive. To treat or engage with (a task, topic, idea, plan, situation, etc.) frivolously or indifferently; to give one's…

To deal with, treat, or study, in a slight and superficial manner. Also with over (cf. 9c).

To run or skim over hurriedly and in a careless or slovenly manner. Also with through.

transitive. With over. To conceal or misrepresent (a crime, fault, etc.); to cover up. Also (in weaker sense): to pass or gloss over (a point…

with over, through: To hurry through, run over, or perform in a hurried slovenly way.

to shuffle†over, through: to perform hurriedly or perfunctorily, get through somehow.

transitive. To perform or carry out (one's duty, work, study, etc.) in a careless, lazy, or hurried way; chiefly with over. Also intransitive with th…

intransitive. To work something over in a careless or slovenly manner. Obsolete.

intransitive. To struggle through, on, along; hence, to go hurriedly and superficially (through or over some operation).

To go through hurriedly and carelessly. Also intransitive with through.

transitive. To perform in a perfunctory manner; to go through as a matter of routine.

To go through in a superficial manner.