Sentence examples for a perfunctory answer from inspiring English sources

Yes, we'll say, if asked, but it's a perfunctory answer.

Mr. MacAskill said he had received a perfunctory answer this summer when he wrote to Jack Straw, justice minister in the Brown government, asking the government to "make representations or provide information" regarding the proposed release.

But at "Chicago nothing was assumed, all questions were asked point blank, and you were not allowed to get away with a perfunctory answer.

He received a perfunctory response from an Air Force aide.

Asked whether he planned to travel to Atlanta to meet with Donald's representatives — as he and Rams executives did before last year's preseason finale at Green Bay — McVay detoured from his usual perfunctory answers about the situation.

The Six Nations refused to answer questions at a perfunctory media conference, while Pierre Camou, president of the French Rugby Federation, implicitly blamed the referee.

Her response: a perfunctory "file a ticket".

But for the most part this is rewardingly engaging fare, made all the more likable by Wiig's apparent reluctance to answer the inevitable calls for a perfunctory sequel.

She never says where she is, and mainly answers his e-mails with a perfunctory "Thank you for thinking of me.

But, after answering a few more questions in a perfunctory manner, Valet exits upstage center through a kind of gate leading into a dark space.

"He's got serious questions to answer about her failure to provide more than a perfunctory apology to the House of Commons.