Usage examples for perfunctory
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The seats facing each other on opposite sides of the chancel were unoccupied, save by a tall young woman and a little girl, who now hurriedly took their places, and in a formal, perfunctory manner put down their heads for a supposed private prayer for a blessing on this opportunity of public worship. – Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories by Mrs. Woods Baker
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He greeted her with a kiss, but hers in return was perfunctory. – An American Suffragette by Isaac N. Stevens
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He had asked her, it is true, in a perfunctory way what she had done, and who her teachers had been. – Miss Billy by Eleanor H. Porter