Meanings of perfunctory examination in English

We still hoped that they might make a perfunctory examination and then return.

I always looked upon this perfunctory examination as a nuisance.

The other made a perfunctory examination, went into every corner, tapped the walls and stared at the ceiling.

A rigid and not a perfunctory examination of physical capacity has been provided for the higher grade officers.

Stacey found Mott in the county courthouse, and a perfunctory examination soon put him in possession of a certificate.

Admittedly she had been fed and even given a perfunctory examination by a surgeon to see if she was injured.

Some of them began to fashion a crude bivouac and few wandered around the clearing, giving it a perfunctory examination.

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.

"Samoval, is it?" said Sir Terence, and went down on one knee beside the body to make a perfunctory examination.