PERFUNCTORY


Meaning of PERFUNCTORY in English

adjective

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a perfunctory apology

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A 6-3 third set lasted only 26 perfunctory minutes.

I could probably live with it, but really this perfunctory business belongs out of sight.

If the national government had seemed perfunctory in its response to the threats against Baker, it seemed oblivious to his death.

Rick is assigned a perfunctory review of the Cindy Liggett case.

Rochford did it with an almost perfunctory efficiency.

Thomas's mind seemed to be elsewhere, and there was no perfunctory laugh in return.

You put in a coin, a wand twirls, and a brief selection of perfunctory destinies is on offer.

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