What's the difference between customarily and perfunctory?

Customarily


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a customary manner; habitually.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The formal results of the analysis show that when psychological considerations are incorporated into a state-dependent utility model, the normative results customarily obtained concerning value-of-life need to be qualified.
  • (2) This method permits direct measurement of the effects of low doses of radiation and other mutagens without resort to the controversial extrapolation procedure customarily used to estimate effects of doses in the neighborhood of actual human exposures.
  • (3) For examples of a successful legacy we are customarily steered towards the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, even though, as always seems to be glossed over, the organisers faced a £100m shortfall with just weeks to go and had to be bailed out by Sport England (£30m), the government (£30m) and Manchester City Council (£40m).
  • (4) The orthodontically treated group had a significantly higher percentage of even marginal ridges in the teeth that are customarily banded.
  • (5) You would not find Keir customarily in wing collar and stripy trousers."
  • (6) The thickness of the cortex did not reflect this difference but in younger animals the process of osteonal remodelling seemed further advanced in the cortex which was customarily subject to the larger deformation.
  • (7) Estrogen stimulation of the uterus produces a spectrum of biochemical responses that are customarily linked together.
  • (8) Examiners in clinical control programs customarily undergo an intensive period of training to standardize their interpretation of diagnostic criteria.
  • (9) Under such circumstances lesions resembling silicotic nodules may be found, but with the customarily lower levels of quartz the pathological features assume the form characteristic of coal workers.
  • (10) This protein is fixed by phosphate-buffered formalin or glutaraldehyde at pH 7.3, but the label is diminished by fixation in customarily employed acetic ethanol or in formalin at acid pH.
  • (11) In a preliminary field trial in the Caribbean, the skin test proved to be somewhat less sensitive than the customarily used extract of adult worms in Coca's solution.
  • (12) A new, easy-to-operate HALO fitting device is described and compared with devices customarily used up to the present time.
  • (13) This finding suggests that lower or less frequent doses than are customarily used might be equally efficacious.
  • (14) A lateral rhinotomy incision is employed and when necessary, this exposure is increased by extending the incision of split the upper lip and reflect the cheek flap as is customarily done with the Weber-Ferfusson incision.
  • (15) The three-dimensional localization of these electrodes within the myocardium and the subsequent depiction of the data obtained have customarily been performed manually.
  • (16) Differentiation of a chondrosarcoma customarily has an adverse effect on the prognosis with both the early appearance of metastases and a rapidly fatal clinical course.
  • (17) In a study of necropsies at Yale-New Haven (Conn) Hospital from 1972 to 1981, the necropsy detection rates for lung cancer were slightly higher for women than for men, and were substantially higher for both genders than the customarily reported rates in the general population.
  • (18) It is probable that learning to read depends in part upon the ability to establish an association between a seen object (customarily perceived within the right hemisphere) and a verbal symbol (mediated by the left).
  • (19) Most surgeons have customarily recommended conservative management, especially for patients in Group II, because of the supposedly "high risk" involved in decortication.
  • (20) Forty animals in each dose group were then maintained for 5-38 weeks on the complete diet (diet 1) or one of the three methyl-deficient diets customarily used in this laboratory: diet 2, devoid of methionine and choline; diet 3, devoid of methionine only; and diet 4, devoid of choline only.

Perfunctory


Definition:

  • (a.) Done merely to get rid of a duty; performed mechanically and as a thing of rote; done in a careless and superficial manner; characterized by indifference; as, perfunctory admonitions.
  • (a.) Hence: Mechanical; indifferent; listless; careless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The apparent lack of "anything to do" can discourage physicians from attempting anything more than perfunctory management of these cases.
  • (2) Refugees scramble for ways into Europe as Hungary seals borders Read more Habbal was one of at least 16 applicants to be rejected on Tuesday, and he claimed that each person was turned down in a maximum 20 minutes, after a series of perfunctory questions about their country of origin and route to Hungary.
  • (3) From the peak of potential perfection you descend down through "going to the toilet with the door open", past "perfunctory sex" and into "cold, dead stares across the breakfast table".
  • (4) The visit though will remain perfunctory, reflecting the troubled relationship.
  • (5) Instead it pushed through Lord Mandelson's wrong-headed digital economy bill, which only got its perfunctory Commons second reading yesterday, as well as the unavoidable budget resolutions.
  • (6) Social care is in crisis, leaving half a million frail old people with no care at all, while others get notoriously perfunctory 15-minute home visits or often squalid residential care.
  • (7) You could never accuse Frank Lowy of not caring enough about Australian football, but in his press conference announcing Postecoglou as coach there was a warmth and an avuncularity that had been missing in his more perfunctory public interactions with Osieck, Verbeek and even Hiddink.
  • (8) In a brilliant coincidence, he was also there to collect them all, rewarding all the fans who voted on social media with a fairly perfunctory performance of What Do You Mean?
  • (9) The process for deciding that the war was legal is described as “perfunctory” by the inquiry, while “no formal record was made of that decision, and the precise grounds on which it was made remains unclear”.
  • (10) These were the days when, other than perfunctory call-ups by prison staff, there was little focus on the motivations behind so-called offending behaviour.
  • (11) "The North's film-makers are just doing perfunctory work.
  • (12) Nursing home physicians are often unprepared to make psychiatric diagnoses, and a perfunctory annual psychiatric evaluation is insufficient to manage the complex depression syndromes of nursing home residents.
  • (13) If this could be attained, the hours in a hospital on rounds or at lectures would be better spent and ultimately, the speaker, too, would derive more satisfaction from his work if he were rewarded with stimulating questions from an appreciative audience instead of the perfunctory applause of somnolent, noncomprehending colleagues, driven almost to distraction by unending cacolalia complicated by lightning speed and rank inaudibility.
  • (14) Savile was given only a "perfunctory" interview, conducted on his terms at Stoke Mandeville ("not good practice") and with a friend present, about whose status officers did not inquire.
  • (15) All the approaches to Baghdad are defended by a mix of state security forces and Shia militiamen, most of whom have had several perfunctory days of training before being dispatched to the frontline.
  • (16) He's saying that the EIB is "part of the Brussels racket"; that BA was a major recipient of the bank's soft loans because it tried to steer Britain into the euro (must have been a bad job); that "everyone knows" that Britain is in a worse economic state than everyone else (oddly enough he cites Brussels as a source) and that our "wooden and perfunctory" PM is "pathologically incapable" of apologising for his mistakes.
  • (17) The inquiry also heard how Dorrell thought the framework for the fledgling PCC, which was set up in 1991, was "vague", "perfunctory" and lacking in any "real sanctions".
  • (18) The news is heartbreaking for the families involved and it will be scarcely believable for these hospitals and GPs who are doing their best to deliver services despite the neglect of the government.” He said that Hunt’s statement to MPs last July was “perfunctory, complacent and evasive, failing to reveal any of the catastrophic detail of how 500,000 pieces of correspondence including test and screening results and pathways following hospital treatment, had failed to be delivered and were in fact languishing unopened in a warehouse”.
  • (19) There’s a terrific documentary about one such case, the Detroit band Death whose sole album was released in a perfunctory edition in, I believe, 1975 and disappeared until a copy of it was digitised and made public on the internet.
  • (20) Most important, the history and physical examination are often perfunctory and the patient undergoes a number of contrast and imaging studies, endoscopic procedures, and laboratory investigations which may still be non-diagnostic.