Perfunctory is valid Scrabble Word

Is perfunctory a scrabble word?
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Is perfunctory valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

11 letters word
21 points in Scrabble
24 points in WWF

Definitions for PERFUNCTORY in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:

characterized by routine or superficiality, mechanical
(of an action) carried out without real interest, feeling, or effort
Done merely to get rid of a duty; performed mechanically and as a thing of rote; done in a careless and superficial manner; characterized by indifference; as, perfunctory admonitions.
Hence: Mechanical; indifferent; listless; careless.
hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
as a formality only

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

characterized by routine or superficiality; mechanical

Words related to PERFUNCTORY

perfunctorily23 perfunctoriness22

How to use PERFUNCTORY in a sentence

Challice, for instance, had perfectly succeeded in hiding her grief for the irreparable loss, and that her questions about Priam Farll had been almost perfunctory.
Their right hands extended and for a fraction of an instant met in a perfunctory shake.
Her glance, heretofore absent, perfunctory, became intense.
From him she had a consideration, not perfunctory, but in the mood of the things they were sharing.
In answer to what was supposed to be the perfunctory question whether they were Catholics, the parents returned the unexpected answer that they were not.
Various matters mentioned by the governor receive perfunctory and formal answers.
She returned his greeting with a perfunctory nod and instantly felt her face grow hot with anger.
De Graf kissed her daughter lightly upon the lips and said in a perfunctory way that she hoped Beth would have a good time.
There was something mocking in her perfunctory deference, but her pride was genuine.
She talked a certain amount, but it was perfunctory and diluted.

The victor, who sat with folded arms as the perfunctory motion was seconded and carried, was bone of their bone and flesh of their flesh.
That Wellesley took more than a perfunctory interest in his military duties is evident even during his earliest years of service.
Then came the publications, a perfunctory order or two, and then the colonel put forth a hand, pushed open the door, and while Mrs.
She could not be negative or perfunctory about anything.
The three had moved together into the waiting-room, and there at the farther end of it, beyond the vulgar, perfunctory chairs and tables, under the flaring gas, he saw Mrs.
The routine work of the line-camp was performed in a hurried, perfunctory manner that day.
After five minutes of perfunctory examination and courteous attention to symptoms, he tore himself away from his patient upon the pretext that she needed quiet.
There were moments when, to his memory, their actual embraces seemed perfunctory, accidental, compared with this deep deliberate imprint of her soul on his.
She walked him off to church, giving Horrocleave a perfunctory good-bye.
It is a creative experience or dull labor as his association with others in the solution of the problem is freely pursued and genuine, or as it is forced and perfunctory.
Waldron paid only a perfunctory court to Catherine, who manifested her pleasure by studied indifference.
As if the matter had been privately agreed upon, the couples separated once more, Katharine and Denham passing out of the house without more than a perfunctory glance round them.
Denham were perfunctory to the verge of rudeness, and to Ralph, who watched her narrowly, she seemed further away than was compatible with her physical closeness.
The classroom work had been rushed a day ahead, examinations were made almost perfunctory, and for them also the clock had been turned twenty-four hours forward.
One of the dangers of this sort of thing is that it is likely to become a perfunctory affair with thousands taking part because they feel they have to.
Did ever lawyer serve politician so well? As Chairman of the State Central Committee, Douglas had no perfunctory position.
She cursed him, in a perfunctory way, and walked off, down the wood, to look after her stew.

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