perfunctory
/pərˈfʌŋk·tə·ri/ adjDefinition
› done quickly and without showing that you care or have much interest: She asked a few perfunctory questions about my family and then ended the conversation.
(Definition of perfunctory adj from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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