perfunctorily

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PERFUNC'TORILY, adverb [Latin perfunctorie, from perfungor; per and fungor, to do or execute.] Carelessly; negligently; in a manner to satisfy external form.
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