事じ務む的てき

na-adjective

administrative; businesslike; practical

Describes a manner, attitude, or process that is efficient, matter-of-fact, and focused on getting things done without unnecessary emotion or decoration.

• 彼かれの事じ務む的てきな対たい応おうは、かえって信しん頼らいできると感かんじた。

  His businesslike response actually felt trustworthy.

• 会かい議ぎは事じ務む的てきに進すすみ、30分ぷんで終おわった。

  The meeting proceeded in a practical manner and finished in 30 minutes.

na-adjective

impersonal; perfunctory; mechanical

Often carries a negative nuance of being cold, detached, or lacking human warmth; used when someone acts like a robot or goes through the motions without genuine feeling.

• 店てん員いんの事じ務む的てきな「いらっしゃいませ」にがっかりした。

  I was disappointed by the clerk's perfunctory 'irasshaimase'.

• 彼かの女じょの手て紙がみはあまりに事じ務む的てきで、友ゆう情じょうを感かんじなかった。

  Her letter was so impersonal that I didn't feel any friendship.