The phrase "perfunctory process" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a process that is done quickly and without paying much attention to detail. For example, "The accountant finished the tax filing in a perfunctory manner, leading to mistakes in the figures."
Calpers has shaken up what traditionally had been a perfunctory process of electing corporate directors by withholding votes for a variety of reasons.
If I'd ever been interested in food at all, a fast-forward culture of cheap drink and bad speed soon rendered eating a perfunctory process.
For him, this was not a pro forma, perfunctory process: Those meetings were much more than "a juridical exercise in naming all the risks as quickly as possible, like the voiceover in an ad for a new pharmaceutical".
As a sign of this bill's unpopularity, a late-night vote allowing the bill to be heard right out of committee saw four Republicans saying no a rare note of dissent in what's usually a perfunctory process.
Accountability can be difficult to connect to this annual privilege review as it is frequently a perfunctory process and is rarely linked to performance [ 21].
In others, the decision is left up to judges, but the standards are generally vague, the process often perfunctory.
The decision, by Justice Louis B. York of State Supreme Court in Manhattan, said that although state and city procedures require an environmental study, "the Council's entire legislative review process was mostly perfunctory, only occasionally rising to the level of cursory, with the operative word being alacrity rather than analysis".
Many prison systems have a hearing process, but hearings are often perfunctory.
Some of this paranoia is a function of the general ruthlessness and lawlessness of the industry, where the certification process is more or less perfunctory, and there is very little oversight.
However, this process seems to occur only in a perfunctory manner by considering only the most obvious pathway, not necessarily at the most important time: before a product is introduced into commerce (e.g., nanoparticles).
"We had one perfunctory meeting with E.P.A., basically going over the status of the process," said Stephen D. Ramsey, G.E.'s vice president for environmental programs.
