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was perfunctory
adjective
Done merely to discharge a duty; performed mechanically and as a thing of rote; done in a careless and superficial manner; characterized by indifference; as, perfunctory admonitions; aspiring only to minimum standards.
Exact(35)
Their conversation there was perfunctory.
The fight was perfunctory.
The applause at the end was perfunctory.
Their handshake at the net was perfunctory.
Yet the response was as cold as it was perfunctory.
Recently somebody said my prose was perfunctory, or pedestrian.
Similar(24)
"Rape is perfunctory," he says.
The references are perfunctory.
Some of these encounters are perfunctory.
When they are, the discussions are perfunctory.
Explanations of fundamental concepts are perfunctory.
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