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Example sentences for: perfunctory

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Under-researched and perfunctory (no editor or reporter wants this unrewarding, time-consuming assignment), tending toward hyperbole (once a writer has picked things to preview, he has to justify his choices), previews nonetheless provide a valuable service.
The version of this column available only to subscribers is not the rather perfunctory sales pitch you see before you.
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.
Schiavo tells horror stories: FAA safety inspections are perfunctory, counterfeit parts are epidemic, air-traffic-control computers are outdated, and airport security is lax.
Over 3 million citizens had fled the country, over half of them through Berlin, where border controls were only perfunctory.