Meeting you was a pleasure, Fran, busted vase and all.” She smiled, but it was perfunctory.
King, Stephen
The Stand
He gave Sandor Clegane a perfunctory nod and walked away as briskly as his stunted legs would carry him, whistling.
George R. R. Martin
A Game Of Thrones
“A bad case of humors, nothing more,” the fellow snaps after a perfunctory examination.
Gregory Maguire
Confessions of an Ugly Step Sister
Thank you for coming.” He shook hands with each in perfunctory fashion, and they filed out.
Asimov, Isaac
Foundation 1 - Foundation
We had a sort of perfunctory supper together, and I think it cheered us all up somewhat.
Bram Stoker
Dracula
She had made only a perfunctory effort to cover it with make-up, as if knowing that too much effort to cover it would only draw further attention to it.
Stephen King
The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, Book 2)
Thank God, thank God —” Mrs. Weasley ran forward, but the hug Bill bestowed upon her was perfunctory.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
After a pause to dip his lance to Prince Baelor, a pause so brief that was almost perfunctory, he galloped to the north end of the field, past Lord Leo's pavilion and the Laughing Storm's, slowing only when he approached Prince Valarr's tent.
George R.R. Martin
The Tales of Dunk & Egg
One of their aeroplanes flew over on the morning of the ninth, made a perfunctory circle, and went off, probably without seeing us.
T. E. Lawrence
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Some perfunctory clapping by the elders; and some loud shouts of ‘Frodo!
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring