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Skin-deep

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Adjective

1. skin-deep

penetrating no deeper than the skin:

Example Sentences:
'her beauty is only skin-deep'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Skin-deep

see synonyms of skin-deep
adjective
superficial; not going any deeper than the skin
He denies that racism is just skin-deep.
adjective
1. 
superficial; shallow
adverb
2. 
superficially

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Skin-deep

see synonyms of skin-deep
adjective
1. 
penetrating no deeper than the skin
2. 
without real depth or significance; superficial; shallow
adverb
3. 
so as to be only skin-deep; superficially

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Skin-deep

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adj.
Superficial; shallow: a skin-deep acquaintanceship.
adv.
In a shallow manner; superficially.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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