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Example sentences for: perfunctory

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The piece itself is tame and perfunctory, but when you open the paper to Page A12 where it continues, your eye travels immediately to the continuation of another front-page story headlined "G.O.P.
Over 3 million citizens had fled the country, over half of them through Berlin, where border controls were only perfunctory.
Dennis Lim of the Village Voice calls it a "perfunctory, often dreary love-triangle melodrama."
Subsequent inaugurals routinely contain protestations of humility, but they are perfunctory and do not sound sincere.
It is amusing that he could mistake Brando's ludicrous and perfunctory posturing as some controlled experiment in caricature and parody, but the homoerotic slavering over Val Kilmer is infantile and unbecoming of anyone who is supposed to make informed aesthetic judgments.