PERFUNCTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION: (puhr-FUNK-shuh-ner-ee)

MEANING: adjective: Done without any interest, care, or effort.

ETYMOLOGY: Alteration of perfunctory, from Latin perfunctorius (careless), from perfungi (to get through with), from per- (through) + fungi (to perform). Note that fungus has a different origin, likely from Greek spongos (sponge). Earliest documented use: 1838.
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APER FUNCTIONARY - a person who does the routine jobs for a professional mimic

SERF UNCTIONARY - what Uriah Heep would have been back in the Middle Ages

PERJUNCTIONARY - overly connected