perfunctorily
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /pəɹˈfʌŋkt(ə)ɹɪli/
Adverb

perfunctorily

  1. In a perfunctory manner, without interest or concern for quality.
    • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:
      And it was while all were passionately intent upon the pleasing and snake-like progress of their uncle that a young girl in furs, ascending the stairs two at a time, peeped perfunctorily into the nursery as she passed the hallway—and halted amazed.



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