Both Uses of
perfunctory
in
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- This time the fanfare was quite perfunctory, the voice now distinctly cold.†
Chpt 17
- a feeble and perfunctory attempt to clear away some of the appalling mess of his study.
Chpt 30 *perfunctory = done without much interest or effort
Definition:
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(perfunctory) done without much interest or effort -- especially as when dispensing with a formality