Both Uses
perfunctory
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Nights in Rodanthe
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- Other than perfunctory questions as to how school was going or what was happening in the fields, dinners were punctuated only by the sounds of silverware tapping against the plates.†
Chpt 3 *
- In the last years of her marriage to Jack—maybe most of her marriage, she remembered thinking then—whenever they'd made love, it had been perfunctory, short on passion and quick in time, unmoving with its lack of tenderness.†
Chpt 13
Definitions:
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(1)
(perfunctory) done without much interest or effort -- especially as when dispensing with a formality
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)