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Example sentences for: perfunctory

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Democrats gave her only a perfunctory welcome.
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stories: FAA safety inspections are perfunctory, counterfeit parts are epidemic, air-traffic-control computers are outdated, and airport security is lax.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.
Dennis Lim of the Village Voice calls it a "perfunctory, often dreary love-triangle melodrama."
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.