Sentence examples for it was perfunctory from inspiring English sources
Yet the response was as cold as it was perfunctory.
The initial breakout wasn't a serious attempt — it was perfunctory, at best — but at least it made a statement, at least it was a beginning.
In a scathing opinion piece in The Washington Post, Jonathan Bernstein writes of "a generic speech and a generic convention for a generic Republican candidate", adding that "everything in it was perfunctory".
And the level of research, well let's just say it's perfunctory] It's also the case however that "meta" has come to mean something grander, describing the process by which an artist creates a work that turns out to be within a work that, in turn, is within a work.
He chose not to take it: the speech was perfunctory (just 20 minutes) and largely confined to the same five promises that he had campaigned on.
Mr. Jobs wrote back within 30 minutes, and though the reply was perfunctory, it still made Mr. Söderlund's day — and then echoed around the world, after he forwarded the exchange to a blog devoted to Apple news.
The initial breakout wasn't a serious attempt it was perfunctory, at best but at least it made a statement, at least it was a beginning.
Their conversation there was perfunctory.
The fight was perfunctory.
The applause at the end was perfunctory.
