as in shallowness
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Recent Examples of superficiality
Everything from her enigmatic persona to her underlying strength reflects this Water sign’s ability to cut through superficialities and get to the heart of things.
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Valerie Mesa, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025
Grande matched her co-star’s vocal prowess, but her numbers tend to reflect her character’s superficiality.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
Scorpios aren’t interested in superficiality; on the contrary, their urge to merge with another mind, body and soul is strong.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 23 Oct. 2024
Iconoclastic, skeptical, and contrarian were other descriptions of Lewis that, while also true, had the ring of superficiality—of being unorthodox just for the hell of it.
—Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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Valerie Mesa, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025
Grande matched her co-star’s vocal prowess, but her numbers tend to reflect her character’s superficiality.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
Scorpios aren’t interested in superficiality; on the contrary, their urge to merge with another mind, body and soul is strong.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 23 Oct. 2024
Iconoclastic, skeptical, and contrarian were other descriptions of Lewis that, while also true, had the ring of superficiality—of being unorthodox just for the hell of it.
—Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
See All Example Sentences for superficiality
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“Superficiality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superficiality. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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