perfunctorily
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /pəɹˈfʌŋkt(ə)ɹɪli/
perfunctorily
- 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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