All 7 Uses

perfunctory
in
Sister Carrie
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"Why, Sister Carrie!" she began, and there was a perfunctory embrace of welcome.†
Chpt 1 *
If the digression is unusual enough, the drag of habit will be heavy enough to cause the unreasoning victim to return and perform the perfunctory thing.†
Chpt 8
His actions, in all that related to his family, were of the most perfunctory kind.†
Chpt 15
This left Mrs. Hurstwood in the mood to extend the perfunctory greetings of some who knew her into short conversations, and the short conversations of friends into long ones.†
Chpt 22
It was from one who meant but to greet her perfunctorily that this interesting intelligence came.†
Chpt 22

perfunctorily = without much interest or effort
He troubled over many little details and talked perfunctorily to everybody.†
Chpt 25
The common run of conventional, perfunctory notices of the doings of society, which she could scarcely refrain from scanning each day, had given her a distinct idea of the gorgeousness and luxury of this wonderful temple of gastronomy.†
Chpt 32

Definitions:

(1) (perfunctory)
done without much interest or effort -- especially as when dispensing with a formality
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)