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US
/pɝˈfəŋktɝi/
]
[ UK /pəfˈʌŋktəɹˌi/ ]
[ UK /pəfˈʌŋktəɹˌi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
a passing glance
perfunctory courtesy
a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws
In his paper, he showed a very superficial understanding of psychoanalytic theory -
done or produced as a formality only
a one-candidate pro forma election
How To Use perfunctory In A Sentence
- Mothers dropped off their young sons for the first term with a perfunctory peck on the cheek. Times, Sunday Times
- Police investigations are often perfunctory. Times, Sunday Times
- She slipped between sheets squeaky with cold, pinched at my hand, a perfunctory touch, and rolled away onto her side.
- She'd boil a dozen eggs to use later for deviled eggs - hers were zingy with mayo, sharp mustard, bit of vinegar, the perfunctory paprika.
- They only made a perfunctory effort.
- Some of the perfunctory descriptions they offer of the movies they sell on DVD are a scream.
- I created you concede the fact that I do not have to love again perfunctory explanation.
- I created you concede the fact that I do not have to love again perfunctory explanation.
- I created you concede the fact that I do not have to love again perfunctory explanation.
- They learned fairly to live in the perfunctory; they remained in it as many hours of the day as might be; it took on finally the likeness of some spacious central chamber in a haunted house, a great overarched and overglazed rotunda, where gaiety might reign, but the doors of which opened into sinister circular passages. The Golden Bowl — Complete