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Carried out without real interest, feeling, or concern

Present participle for to do something in a mechanical, unreflective manner, especially as a matter of routine and without commitment or enthusiasm

Adjective

Carried out without real interest, feeling, or concern

walking through it

couldn't-care-less

spur-of-the-moment

inconsequential

take-it-or-leave-it

lacking concern

not giving a monkey's

without formality

without hesitation

without discussion

without warning

apathetic towards

uninvolved with

unconcerned about

going through motions

nonchalant about

phlegmatic about

unresponsive to

could care less

unenthusiastic about

incurious about

jumping the gun

ill-thought-out

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Verb

Present participle for to do something in a mechanical, unreflective manner, especially as a matter of routine and without commitment or enthusiasm

putting on an act

putting up a front

putting on a false front

making a pretence of

giving appearance of

giving the appearance of

putting on airs

going through the motions of

making a show of

putting on a false display

claiming falsely

putting on a front

shucking and jiving

passing oneself off as

making a pretense

presenting a false face

presenting a false front

misrepresenting

making out like

pretending to be

telling untruth

masquerading as

telling a white lie

playing the part

letting on like

creating out of thin air

putting up a smoke screen

laying it on thick

pretending to have

swinging the lead

professing to have

putting up a front of

professing to be

putting on a pretense

playing to the gallery

affecting the role of

assuming the role of

assuming the role

acting as though

doing an impression

following in footsteps

doing an impression of

patterning after

trying to be like

behaving affectedly

striking an attitude

assuming an attitude

striking a pose

playing the part of

disguising yourself

copping an attitude

sweeping under the rug

sweeping under the carpet

keeping quiet about

keeping a lid on

drawing a veil over

doing a take-off

telling stories

stretching the truth

telling untruths

departing from the truth

forswearing oneself

speaking with forked tongue

telling a little white lie

inventing a story

making up a story

not telling the truth

pulling the wool over someone's eyes

telling a terminological inexactitude

pulling someone's leg

creating fiction

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“They go through the motions with manifest tedium as if they are moving files in an office.”

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