Sentence examples for perfunctory item from inspiring English sources
That is, was the question motivated by genuine concern or because it was a perfunctory item on a checklist.
The leadership vote is usually just a perfunctory agenda item that has, in the past, resulted in more than 90percentt of the delegates voting to endorse the existing leader.
The baby bass, the second-most-expensive item on offer, is more perfunctory than memorable.
On the big menu board at the Lenny's around the corner from me, where I sometimes grab a perfunctory lunch, the calorie counts of every item are clearly posted.
Fifteen million stolen here, 36 million stolen there – at this point the numbers seem perfunctory.
I was cautious because I remembered the perfunctory gift-suggestion sites I visited last year, which tended to recommend impersonal items, like macadamia nuts in a tin, that one would find in an airport gift shop.
So things become disappointingly perfunctory.
"Rape is perfunctory," he says.
The Fosse homage appears perfunctory.
