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| the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court |
| morally ignoble or base; meanly selfish, self-seeking, or mercenary |
Doing something pro forma means satisfying only the minimum requirements of a task and doing it in a perfunctory way: “Her welcoming address was strictly pro forma: you could tell that her mind was a million miles away.” From Latin, meaning “by form.”