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
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 Glaspell, Susan
His optimism, his pride, the sanguine perfunctoriness of much of his character were all shown in the omission.
From The Marriage of William Ashe by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
He saw his second Channel crossing with a flesh wound in his thigh, when there seemed to his hyper-sensitive mind a faint perfunctoriness in her greeting.
From The Hidden Places by Sinclair, Bertrand W.
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.
