PERFUNCTORY in a Sentence

Learn PERFUNCTORY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

12 example sentences for PERFUNCTORY, such as:

1. She gave him a perfunctory smile.
2. They only made a perfunctory effort.
3. She gave the list only a perfunctory glance.
4. She could not be negative or perfunctory about anything.
5. A perfunctory love lost evolve into black and white color.

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 Meanings and Examples of PERFUNCTORY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
perfunctory
 a.  done routinely and with little interest or care; acting with indifference
Classic Sentence:
1  She had never given him more than perfunctory courtesy before, and so the beaming smile of pleasure with which she greeted him and the two hands outstretched to his almost took his breath away.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  Few women except Suellen had ever given him more than perfunctory courtesy and it was very flattering to have a former belle like Scarlett hanging on his words.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
3  She could not be negative or perfunctory about anything.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
4  It suddenly occurred to the youth that the fight in which he had been was, after all, but perfunctory popping.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
5  We had a sort of perfunctory supper together, and I think it cheered us all up somewhat.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
Example Sentence:
1  A perfunctory love lost evolve into black and white color.
2  They only made a perfunctory effort.
3  I created you concede the fact that I do not have to love again perfunctory explanation.
4  She gave the list only a perfunctory glance.
5  She gave him a perfunctory smile.
6  I introduced myself, and at my name his perfunctory manner changed; I knew he heard me before.
7  Indeed, even since 9/11, it is relatively easy to enter most large buildings in downtown Seoul, and security procedures have been generally perfunctory.