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skin-deep
[skin-deep]
adjective
superficial or slight; not profound or substantial.
Their sincerity is only skin-deep.
adverb
slightly; superficially.
He went into the subject only skin-deep.
skin-deep
adjective
superficial; shallow
adverb
superficially
Word History and Origins
Origin of skin-deep1
Idioms and Phrases
Example Sentences
Because of this, Trump has been able to disrupt and expose that they are merely skin-deep.
More central than the gross-out factor is a wry statement of disability pride, a reminder that swagger needn’t be skin-deep.
The story may be only skin-deep, but Banks and Pullman find something truthfully hopeless in these surface pleasures.”
But the most spirited discussions at Cannes are over whether the movie is trenchant or skin-deep.
Studies exploring skin-deep resilience have found evidence of a health toll in outwardly resilient young adults from disadvantaged backgrounds, including higher risk of inflammation, immune cell aging, metabolic disorders, and chronic disease.
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