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perfunctory sentence examples

  • Perfunctory manner.
  • Landing, we went through the somewhat perfunctory customs check and out to get our ride to the hilton.
  • As the same time the divination process itself seems to have become more perfunctory, as the performance became more important than the result.
  • Perfunctory ways, never allowing your partner to step over the emotional line you've drawn.
  • There have been attempts, albeit fairly perfunctory, to honor the dead in some way.
  • Perfunctory examination.
  • Some effort has been made to include questions for students to answer, but these are rather perfunctory attempts to test understanding.
  • Perfunctory performances - far from it.
  • Another question is whether the treasury is consulting eddie george himself, in any more than a very perfunctory sense.
  • Perfunctory fashion.
  • He speaks in a deep-voiced monotone, but he is not perfunctory in his replies or self-evidently bored, as other players can be.
  • Perfunctory attempts to test understanding.
  • My comments on the others are based on relatively perfunctory examinations of what is on offer.

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