Expanding the repertoire of nuanced and expressive English vocabulary, today’s Word of the Day is “perfunctory”, a term that encapsulates the idea of doing something with minimal effort or enthusiasm.

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Search ~Adjective casual, cursory, passing, perfunctory - hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough Example - " a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws ...