perfunctorily

perfunctory | American Dictionary

perfunctory
adjective
us/pərˈfʌŋk·tə·ri/
done quickly and without showing that you care or have much interest:
She asked a few perfunctory questions about my family and then ended the conversation.

Examples of perfunctory

perfunctory
In summary, relationships with nieces and nephews for most of those with families at a distance are primarily symbolic, perfunctory and infrequent.
The marriage ceremony itself was perfunctory and, in this instance, the whole process of juba'ing seems to have proceeded smoothly.
Before the concert they give a few perfunctory nods or make no expression at all.
We must end the practice of perfunctory disclosures followed by business as usual.
Elsewhere, and particularly in the final sections, the analysis is perfunctory.
Chapter 1 presents an introduction that in some areas is perfunctory, offering little more than examples from the crop chapters.
The mechanical metaphor did much more than establish a cultural setting for cooperative and perfunctory behavior.
The setting is rendered with more realism than in the previous assassination settings, which were perfunctory and stylised, suggested more than shown.
This book devotes only perfunctory attention to the grave problem of low pension coverage of the labor force.
A fourteenth-century version of the processional (pp. 363-4), which was published elsewhere in 1975, is much more perfunctory.
It is only on the more perfunctory details of the qadi's life that they are in agreement.
In general, this process of overseeing budget implementation is nothing more than perfunctory.
And some of the other attempts to raise the issue seemed to this reviewer somewhat ritualistic and perfunctory.
In the first place, the theoretical underpinning is a little perfunctory.
The contributions vary greatly in their quality and a few are perfunctory.
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