perfunctorily

Etymology

perfunctory + -ly

adv

  1. In a perfunctory manner, without interest or concern for quality.
    Lim Cheng Po said an Anglican prayer or two, not too perfunctorily. 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 606
    Tibor was circling the table and asking each of us how our entrée was, and we all regarded this as just one of those perfunctory waiter-questions and all perfunctorily smiled and cleared our mouths and said Fine, Fine—and Tibor finally stopped and looked down at us all with a pained expression and changed his timbre slightly so it was clear he was addressing the whole table: “Please. I ask each: is excellent? […]” 1997, David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group

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