It had been performed with the unsmiling Perfunctoriness of the nurse; an act of duty, not of tenderness.
"The Rough Road"
William John Locke
Boone sat afterward in the dreary little mortuary chapel while a clergyman whom, the undertaker said, "came in in these cases," performed, with the Perfunctoriness of routine, the services for the dead.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
He saw his second Channel crossing with a flesh wound in his thigh, when there seemed to his hyper-sensitive mind a faint Perfunctoriness in her greeting.
"The Hidden Places"
Bertrand W. Sinclair