What is "perfunctorily"

Usage examples of "perfunctorily".

The man steepled his fingers at me, bowed perfunctorily, and released a veritable tirade of Bengali at the dripping Inspector.

I rebundled the file, perfunctorily leafing through the last few items, something hit my eye.

Walsh shook hands perfunctorily with Curtis Rhodin, but made no effort to try to be friends.

A school of mullet ran perfunctorily toward some mangroves to escape its path and then, sensing no threat, darted back to play in the mottled shadows around the dock.

Just when she was, on the verge of inventing an attack of the yap ours, legitimate excuse to retire, a solid dark figure materialised before her, bowed perfunctorily and straightened.

Without her he would be like a dozen other chaplains he knew, drinking, chasing, sleeping around, doing their work perfunctorily, even well, but waiting for leave when they could drink away their loneliness or screw their brains out, usually with anyone who was available.

He finished reading the Gospel with a dramatic flourish, kissed the book according to the rubric, although perfunctorily, as if embarrassed, then turned to face the people again, his simple white chasuble hissing to keep up with his brisk, staccato movements.

Relg, his cowled leaf mail shirt covering his head and shoulders like lizard skin, climbed down from the lead wagon and only perfunctorily answered the greetings of Barak and Mandorallen.

Peter Fungabera greeted Craig and Sally-Anne perfunctorily and waved them to stools, then went on speaking into the telephone.

Ironically, those wretched ancestors had sex only on rare days of ovulation, when they perfunctorily discharged the biological imperative to fertilize, robbed of your leisurely pleasure by their desperate need for swift results.

And the guards who, when Volkovoi wasn't around, carried out the frisking perfunctorily, now flung themselves into their work with savage zeal.

He ran the scanner rod over the carrycase perfunctorily and jerked his head in the direction of the unhappy Tellarite.

He perfunctorily acknowledges the faults of that historical period—.

Even when all the occupants of our table had arrived Dent kept us standing a time longer as he lectured us perfunctorily that every officer sees to the well-being of his men before he takes care of himself.

The Rancher of Widemos was responsible for the collection and delivery of these funds on behalf of the planet Nephelos and, perfunctorily, the Tyranni would check his books.