Definitionadv. in a set manner without serious attention
Last update: July 11, 2015
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Further, it discusses, as Hort observes, certain indestructible problems which much early Christian theology passes by or deals with rather perfunctorily; and it does so with a freshness and reality which, as we compare the original 3rd-century basis with the conventional manner of the Epitome, we see to be not unconnected with origin in an age as yet free from the trammels of formal orthodoxy. [Please select]
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Elizabeth, starting for church, had asked Blair, perfunctorily, if he were going. [Please select]
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He had barely time to shake perfunctorily the hand Thorpe offered him, and utter an absent-minded "How are you this morning." [Please select]
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Thorpe touched a bell, and the clerk who came in perfunctorily attested the signatures upon both papers. [Please select]
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Beatrice listened perfunctorily at first, but pretty soon she found herself caught, and held by his wonderful playing. [Please select]
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The Judge examined the papers perfunctorily, and, although his air was deliberate, his fingers made clumsy work of it. [Please select]
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For conscience' sake, more or less perfunctorily, I endeavoured to achieve something that seemed to me bound to end in pitiful failure.' [Please select]
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"I suppose those boys will be more stuck up than ever now," said Jack to Bill Bender, as, having perfunctorily thanked their rescuers, they started for home with the almost weeping Sam. [Please select]
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I foresaw the moment when the constable would carelessly and perfunctorily draw the curtain--and then the flash, the report, the cry, the mad struggle up and down the room, which would follow. [Please select]
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