perfunctorily

perfunctory +‎ -ly

• IPA^(key): /pəɹˈfʌŋkt(ə)ɹɪli/

perfunctorily (comparative more perfunctorily, superlative most perfunctorily)

1. In a perfunctory manner, without interest or concern for quality.
   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     And it was while all were passionately intent upon the pleasing and snake-like progress of their uncle that a young girl in furs, ascending the stairs two at a time, peeped perfunctorily into the nursery as she passed the hallway—and halted amazed.

   • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 606:

     Lim Cheng Po said an Anglican prayer or two, not too perfunctorily.

   • 1997, David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:

     Tibor was circling the table and asking each of us how our entrée was, and we all regarded this as just one of those perfunctory waiter-questions and all perfunctorily smiled and cleared our mouths and said Fine, Fine—and Tibor finally stopped and looked down at us all with a pained expression and changed his timbre slightly so it was clear he was addressing the whole table: “Please. I ask each: is excellent? […] ”