Words similar to perfunctory

Example sentences for: perfunctory

How can you use “perfunctory” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

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.
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.
The version of this column available only to subscribers is not the rather perfunctory sales pitch you see before you.