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Example sentences for: perfunctory

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Over 3 million citizens had fled the country, over half of them through Berlin, where border controls were only perfunctory.
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.
Dennis Lim of the Village Voice calls it a "perfunctory, often dreary love-triangle melodrama."
Democrats gave her only a perfunctory welcome.
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.