(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.
(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.
Slipshod
Definition:
(a.) Wearing shoes or slippers down at the heel.
(a.) Figuratively: Careless in dress, manners, style, etc.; slovenly; shuffling; as, slipshod manners; a slipshod or loose style of writing.
Example Sentences:
(1) City enjoyed their advantage for too little time and it was a pity their rear guard was so slipshod as the Spaniard’s goal was a beauty.
(2) Lord Bingham said: "Weight should ordinarily be given to the professional judgment of an editor or journalist in the absence of some indication that it was made in a casual, cavalier, careless or slipshod manner."
(3) Spurs seem to go behind even when they win – as well as getting biffed on the chin in heavy defeats by Chelsea and Liverpool – so for all the credit they deserve in fighting back for a draw, they bring ridicule for the slipshod manner in which they get themselves into a hole.
(4) He noted that an estimated 14% of suspects freed from Guantánamo returned to the battlefield, but blamed that on the Bush administration's slipshod process of selecting which to let loose.
(5) Further slipshod marking meant Lars Stindl was in yards of space, and this time Hart was given no chance and City were in serious trouble.
(6) John Keats described it as a “splashy, rainy, misty ... floody, muddy slipshod County”.
(7) Indeed, given the slipshod nature of their policies, the new government has thinking to do as well.
(8) As seen in these factors, the somatic patients were relatively easy-going, slipshod, and accepting of change.
(9) The city’s financing had become so slipshod and haphazard that it no longer even maintained an official set of books.
(10) The Lords is another matter: the slipshod way in which peers are created warps the operation of parliament.
(11) But industry problems have persisted in the Arctic, including slipshod maintenance of key parts of the Trans Alaska Pipeline and North Slope oil facilities.
(12) Our analysis finds previously undisclosed evidence of slipshod use of data and apparent efforts to cover that up.
(13) If there was going to be much fun they really needed to be slipshod, bloated with the complacency of millionaires.
(14) But the display against Stoke was as slipshod as it had been in the 2-1 home defeat by Norwich City , suggesting the side have lost faith in Van Gaal and he admitted: “We didn’t dare to play our football.” But asked if he had no ideas left of how to raise his squad for Chelsea’s visit, Van Gaal said: “No.