perfunctoriness
- 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
There is none of the Toda perfunctoriness here.
From Anthropology by Marett, R. R. (Robert Ranulph)
There was an air about the service of perfunctoriness and lack of object, which made the service indefinite and aimless.
From Russell H. Conwell by Burr, Agnes Rush
Lucy saw her kiss him with a cold perfunctoriness, bowed herself, as her name was nervously pronounced by Miss Manisty, and then withdrew.
From Eleanor by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
Such a system could not but tend to perfunctoriness in the discharge of duty.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)
