He returned her embrace in a distracted, perfunctory manner.

They were conducting their own investigations of the case in a casual, perfunctory manner.

The trader looked over these two new recruits in a perfunctory manner as they stood dumbly before him.

So he performed his own duty in a perfunctory manner.

The other characters are depicted in an even more perfunctory manner.

His perfunctory manner suggested that he didn't care why they had come or what they did.

He spoke in a perfunctory manner; it was a formality.

He examined one or two of them in a perfunctory manner.

He is expected to raise concerns over rights only in a perfunctory manner, Western diplomats say, and then move on to his commercial agenda.

She criticized the current Senate for passing large bills in a perfunctory manner, particularly the $800 billion stimulus package.