perfunctoriness

• Hence her words "very nice," "so charming," were uttered with a perfunctoriness that made them sound absurdly unreal. —  The Woodlanders
• "Indeed!" murmured Constance, with the perfunctoriness of habit in replying to these tidings. —  The Old Wives' Tale
• They consulted the barometer and ordered the daily carriage with the perfunctoriness of habit. —  The Old Wives' Tale
• Such a system could not but tend to perfunctoriness in the discharge of duty. —  A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
• It had been performed with the unsmiling perfunctoriness of the nurse; an act of duty, not of tenderness. —  The Rough Road

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms