We didn't look at each other as he kissed me perfunctorily good-bye.
"That's nice," said Tilley perfunctorily.
In the 1996 election only 43 households went to the ballot, and some did so perfunctorily.
Not only are environmental resources only perfunctorily referred to in economics textbooks, they are also cheerfully ignored in economists' public pronouncements.
No verbal replies seem to be expected of the student: one 'question' is answered perfunctorily, and the others elicit a performed response.
If there is one area that this otherwise nuanced analysis deals with somewhat perfunctorily, it is the current crisis.
Birds he treats perfunctorily as well as fish.
