perfunctory
adjective
performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial.
perfunctoriness
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a word derived from
perfunctory.
Example Sentences
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There’s a wildness of incident combined with a perfunctoriness of psychology that ultimately makes it difficult to invest any real emotional capital in the experience of reading it.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2013
Boone sat afterward in the dreary little mortuary chapel while a clergyman whom, the undertaker said, "came in in these cases," performed, with the perfunctoriness of routine, the services for the dead.
From The Tempering by Charles Neville Buck
She greeted Joshua with a chill perfunctoriness that was indescribable, and her glance glided completely over Lucinda and faded away in the open country on the further side of her.
From The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary by Anne Warner
Though she talked so sweetly there was, Karen felt it now, a perfunctoriness in Tante's remarks.
From Tante by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
"Indeed!" murmured Constance, with the perfunctoriness of habit in replying to these tidings.
From The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett
