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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
see beauty is only skin deep .Example Sentences
It could be written off as largely cosmetic, but increasingly appears more than skin-deep.
"With residences as with—er—ladies, beauty is only skin deep," said he.
The pride was only skin deep; the pluck was part of the heroic element in Annie.
But if his words and writings are examined, it will be seen that this mobility was only skin-deep.
Paul had been touched—a mere graze, skin deep, but still touched—by Helen Darcy's beauty and fascinations.
It is only later in life that ces demoiselles begin to find that their neighbour's beauty is but skin-deep.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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