Both Uses of
perfunctory
in
Nine Stories
- The grayhaired man asked her to hurry up, and she raised up on her right forearm just quickly enough so that the movement didn't quite look perfunctory.†
Story 7
- Teddy perfunctorily gave his mother a kiss on the cheek.
Story 9 *perfunctorily = without much interest or effort
Definition:
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(perfunctory) done without much interest or effort -- especially as when dispensing with a formality