perfunctory
adjective

- done quickly, without taking care or interest

- performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial

The Cambridge Dictionary / Dictionary Com

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WORD ORIGIN

The word “perfunctory” meaning “done mechanically or without interest or zeal and merely for the sake of being rid of the duty of doing it; done so as to conform to the letter but not the spirit”, is from the 1580s, from Late Latin perfunctorius “careless, negligent”, literally “like one who wishes to get through a thing,” from Latin perfungus “discharge, busy oneself, get through”, from per “through” + fungi “perform”.

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SYNONYMS

- carried out without real interest, feeling, or concern

aloof from, apathetic (towards), asleep at the wheel (on the job), automatic, blasé, blithe, bloodless, by the numbers, clinical, couldn’t care less, cursory, desultory, detached, devil-may-care, dilatory, disinterested, doesn’t care, don’t give a damn, going through motions, indifferent (about, to), insensible, insensitive, insouciant, joyless, just watching the clock, lackadaisical, lacking concern (conviction, in energy), lacklustre, languid, mechanical, nonchalant (about), not bothered, not giving a damn (a monkey’s, a toss), offhand about, out of it, passionless, PERFUNCTORY, pro forma, robotic, slap-happy, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy, soulless, spiritless, surface-level, take-it-or-leave-it, token, torpid, unbothered, uncaring, unconcerned (about), unenthusiastic (about), unexcited, unfeeling, uninspired, uninterested, uninvolved (in, with), unmoved by, unthinking, walking through it, what the hell, wooden, workshy

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