Synonym: cursory, shallow, surface. Antonym: deep. Similar words: official, officially, artificial, beneficial, judicial, judicial review, superfluous, deficit. Meaning: [‚suːpə(r)'fɪʃl] adj. 1. being or affecting or concerned with a surface; not deep or penetrating emotionally or intellectually 2. relating to a surface 3. of little substance or significance 4. involving a surface only.
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(61) It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it is not, a matter much easier to determine than what it is. James Russell Lowell
(62) Leaf-gilding usually shows only minor variations in thickness and a superficial bonding to the metal below.
(63) It was, however, a virile face, and, when superficial objections were removed, a kindly face.
(64) The surface of the oral plates adoral and oral shields is obscured by superficial, wide, flat papillae.
(65) While, at a superficial level, the titles might well mislead, a swift glance at the contents is reassuring.
(66) No academic would allow such superficial assessments in his or her own discipline.
(67) This caused deep erosion in upland areas and has left widespread superficial deposits.
(68) If we want to improve early childhood education, by-passing teachers' thinking brings only superficial change.
(69) At best, this organization achieves a grudging, superficial conformity to officially sanctioned patterns of thought and action.
(70) So we get bits of all these: all superficial, all framed around the most drearily predictable judgments.
(71) Thus a buyer's legal position is better if he made no examination than if he made merely a superficial one.
(72) Barlow was treated for a superficial gunshot wound to the leg.
(73) Death or distance may have reduced the number of friends, and relationships with acquaintances may appear to be superficial.
(74) Atomic theory explained chemical change as the rearrangement of unchanging atoms, and therefore in a sense as superficial.
(75) In my view, the above-quoted explanations for the poor showing, although valid, are too superficial.
(76) By comparison the seemingly safe approach is anaemic and superficial - it does not really engage pupils.
(77) Indeed, to a superficial eye, not much had survived which could be salvaged.
(78) No clinical data regarding the aetiology of superficial gastritis in these patients are given.
(79) Historical incidents were no more than superficial disturbances of the established order or recurring events of unchanging significance.
(80) Take the spotlight off the superficial, and perhaps the substance will have a chance to shine through.
(81) However, a decline in pentagastrin stimulated gastric acid secretion with age was seen in those subjects with superficial gastritis also.
(82) But such arrangements bear only a superficial resemblance to classic design.
(82) Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and build good sentences.
(83) The variety underlying the superficial similarity of idiom is enormous, even within the work of a single composer.
(84) In the movie business, such voyages are usually package tours -- rushed itineraries, familiar landmarks, superficial observations.
(85) If we don’t want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we’re stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions. Ellen Degeneres
(86) Those planning to enter public relations in the future will not be able to offer superficial solutions or thinking to any client.
(87) Or were these superficial appearances, against which Socialist solidarity would always prevail?
(88) All they got was the usual complacent, superficial parroting of the empty nonsense about commitments and guarantees.
(89) Richard Seifert's NatWest Tower, which has suffered superficial damage, looks 1960s but was not completed until 1981.
(90) It revealed an unrepentantly superficial world where life revolved around the minutiae of outward appearances and public display.
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