The youth perfunctorily cleaned her room and hastily completed her homework. From LearnThat.org.
Adjective : perfunctory courtesy. ,In his lectures he reveals himself to be merely a perfunctory speaker. From Dictionary.com.
She extended her hand again and shook mine perfunctorily. From Wordnik.com. [To The Hilt]
Mary nodded to him and he perfunctorily acknowledged her. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
"Most amiable of you to say so, Sir Charles!" perfunctorily. From Wordnik.com. [Half A Chance] Reference
Her story was reported perfunctorily -- and roundly dismissed. From Wordnik.com. [The Politics Of Promiscuity] Reference
The widow wiped her eyes perfunctorily, and said that she had. From Wordnik.com. [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference
Maria crossed herself perfunctorily and mumbled a few prayers. From Wordnik.com. [The Hippodrome] Reference
Such papers as they signed, they had glanced over perfunctorily. From Wordnik.com. [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference
Usually every year, I'd perfunctorily try to catch glimpses of it. From Wordnik.com. [rouflaquette Diary Entry] Reference
Elinor, who had lifted her eyes perfunctorily, gave real attention. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at School] Reference
"The Light illumine you," the curly-haired woman said perfunctorily. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow Rising]
A president and an administration going rather perfunctorily into war. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 29, 2007] Reference
Aware that the speaker was watching me closely, I perfunctorily nodded. From Wordnik.com. [The Mutineers] Reference
The lame lad was lectured perfunctorily, and dismissed without penalty. From Wordnik.com. [St. Peter's Fair]
She kissed the latter perfunctorily, her thoughts evidently preoccupied. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
He always smelled of liquor and performed his healing arts perfunctorily. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt from Pompeii ii] Reference
Nothing had been left to chance; not an item was perfunctorily completed. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
He asked where she was going, a conventional question, perfunctorily put. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Woman] Reference
That's what The Fall have always been about, he'll tell you perfunctorily. From Wordnik.com. [FallNews - Hey Peasants!] Reference
The ceremony of the lighting of the new fires he had attended perfunctorily. From Wordnik.com. [Witch-Doctors] Reference
They nodded curtly without words, and Shelby ran perfunctorily through his mail. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
He spoke the service rapidly and the monks muttered the responses perfunctorily. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
Roger nodded at her perfunctorily, preoccupied with the necessities of the moment. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
Suddenly mindful of Guban watching him, he nodded perfunctorily, then looked away. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
At the end of the meeting the Speaker asked, perfunctorily, if anyone had questions. From Wordnik.com. [Julie Bergman Sender: Hey Van, It's Nancy Polosky on the Phone...] Reference
The horse-boxes measured ten feet square and had only been cleaned out perfunctorily. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
Salter had bigger fish to fry, thanked me perfunctorily for my visit, and that was that. From Wordnik.com. [Eugene Jarecki: The Straight Talk Train Wreck] Reference
But it was very perfunctorily that Suzanna went through the ensuing rehearsals at school. From Wordnik.com. [Suzanna Stirs the Fire] Reference
The Commission was in the habit of carrying on its functions perfunctorily and unobtrusively. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference
The marshal, already familiar with the mystery, and baffled by it, searched again perfunctorily. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
As I rebundled the file, perfunctorily leafing through the last few items, something hit my eye. From Wordnik.com. [2nd Chance]
He drew out the letter and looked at it, perfunctorily, before sending it to rest with its fellows. From Wordnik.com. [In Her Own Right] Reference
But none of them spoke more than perfunctorily to Nancy, and the lonely girl felt herself as much "out of it" as ever. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
And conducting her to a seat, he raised her jeweled fingers perfunctorily to his lips, and, wheeling abruptly, left her. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
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