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superficial

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Her Miss America win transcended mere superficial beauty standards.

But it will take more than superficial solidarity to dismantle those structures and the ideologies that birthed them.

It is loathed by some critics who find it patronizing, silly, and superficial.

The implication is that she might even have assisted her husband inflicting his superficial wounds.

Every Bentley is made to order, which essentially means anything “superficial” is possible.

"It has a superficial, glittering prettiness, without—" I hesitated to find the word I wanted.

This design reveals a stumbling-block that superficial people fall over.

So strong were prejudices in favour of superficial morality in even that licentious age!

A little or superficial knowledge may incline a man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth him back to religion.

In touching truly deep and serious things Mistral is often superficial, and passes them off with a commonplace.

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On this page you'll find 114 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to superficial, such as: cursory, frivolous, one-dimensional, perfunctory, silly, and sketchy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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