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Example sentences for: perfunctory

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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stories: FAA safety inspections are perfunctory, counterfeit parts are epidemic, air-traffic-control computers are outdated, and airport security is lax.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.
The version of this column available only to subscribers is not the rather perfunctory sales pitch you see before you.
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.
Dennis Lim of the Village Voice calls it a "perfunctory, often dreary love-triangle melodrama."