Meaning of Perfunctoriness | Babel Free
Equivalents
العربية
عدم الاهتمام
Examples
“When at dusk she reached the Melchester station her husband was there to meet⟳ her, but in his perfunctoriness and her preoccupation they did not see⟳ each other, and she went out of the station alone.”
“Claudia accomplished some shopping in the spirit of perfunctoriness that robs even new bonnets of their bloom.”
“His hard-core images are delivered with a ho-hum perfunctoriness that often enervates his surfaces. . . . [H]is orgies are inert.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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