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
They consulted the barometer and ordered the daily carriage with the perfunctoriness of habit.
From The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett
It had touched her, surrounded as she was by perfunctoriness and embarrassment that this young girl should seek her out in that warm way.
From Fidelity A Novel by Susan Glaspell
Hence her words "very nice," "so charming," were uttered with a perfunctoriness that made them sound absurdly unreal.
From The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
Elizabeth, however, would certainly have detected the perfunctoriness of the tone, and the hypocrisy of the speech, had she had any thoughts to spare.
From Lady Merton, Colonist by Mrs. Humphry Ward
