Perfunctory is an adjective, it means to do something without any real interest, effort or feeling. If you do something merely to get it over and done with then that is perfunctory. If it’s something you’ve done that you don’t give a shit about then that’s perfunctory. Indifferent, apathetic, perfunctory, three ways of saying the same thing.
Girl 1: His way of addressing the problems in their relationship are perfunctory at best.
Girl 2: Jeez girl, ease up on the fancy lingo! We're not Shakespeare here.
Girl 1: You're right, my bad. My point still stands though!
Refers to any routine, bureaucratic business office that adheres rigidly to a routine, usually small and insignificant, yet believes itself to be all-important. In the 1990s in California colleges and universities, the term originally referred to academic administrative offices peroccupied with minor, routine, or insignificant details.
The campus perfunctorium requires evidence that you had a mother before it can verify you were ever born and still eligible for more inconveniences.