perfunctory

• The mystery is rather perfunctory, and the book is mostly an exercise in plumbing the depths of Harriet's mind and her feelings for Peter, about which everyone around her seems aware. —  Dorothy L. Sayers: The Lord Peter Wimsey Stories
• Attempts to study them had been perfunctory, according to the datanet. —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 04-05 - October-November 2003
• I have only to pray I may find the French and throw all my vengeance on them These words show the nervous exasperation superinduced by the tremendous strain of official anxiety and mortified ambition; for the governor's objections were purely formal and perfunctory, as was the Court's submission to the French. —  The Life of Nelson, Vol. I
• But Reid has turned that form (which is perfunctory, at most), and the lack of a signature, into justification for him, alone, to deny an entire state half of its representation in the Senate. —  Freep.com - RSS
• There is nothing perfunctory, and the work is full of art and appeal. —  Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions

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