† perfunctoriousadj.
Chiefly Scottish. Obsolete.
= perfunctory adj.
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the mind > emotion > indifference > [adjective] > specifically of things or tasks
perfunctory1592
perfunctorious1599
supine of1724
the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [adjective] > careless, not thorough
overlyc1450
superficialc1456
sloven1532
sloven-like1569
perfunctory1592
slovenly1592
perfunctorious1599
cursory1601
cursorarya1616
slighty1619
cursitory1632
touch and go1682
passant1685
skimming1728
slapdashc1792
lax1812
slap-bang1815
slummocking1825
slobbery1832
percursory1837
slipshod1845
slip-string1854
slummocky1855
free and easy1864
unthorough1868
slurring1880
slummy1881
sploshy1881
skimmy1893
surfacy1975
drive-through1994
1599 A. Hume Poems (1902) 181 In executing your particular charges then, thair is a gryt negligence, a lothing, a perfunctorius doing.
1644 in J. Stuart Extracts Presbytery Bk. Strathbogie (1843) 46 In so light and perfunctorious a vay.
a1653 H. Binning Serm. (1845) 297 It must be a perfunctorious superficial and empty joy.
1705 A. Brown Second Ess. conc. Land Mint Introd. The sincerely religious, are of farr more use to government, than the perfunctorious and the Hypocriticall pretenders.
1752 H. Fielding Covent-Garden Jrnl. 28 Mar. 3/1 The Aunt..brought her Niece..before the Justice for beating her; which indeed she had done in no perfunctorious Manner.
1819 T. McCrie Life Melville I. iii. 97 The perfunctorious performance of their official task.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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adj.1599