The shallowness of the Obama white paper, issued last June, is now only too obvious.
Their freshness soon withered, on account of the shallowness of the earth.
All that I have seen of life only shows the shallowness of what is called the public service.
shallowness has this advantage, that you can't be drowned there.'
And here the depth or shallowness of our theology will be sure to tell.
She felt a sort of bitter shame over her own shallowness of feeling.
Many instances might be given of the shallowness of the Indian's mind.
The barges in which we now embarked were very small, owning to the shallowness of the river.
The shallowness and simplicity of the girl baffled her continually.
The narrowing of religion saved it from the shallowness of heathenism.
c.1400, schalowe "not deep," probably from or related to Old English sceald (see shoal (n.)). Of breathing, attested from 1875; of thought or feeling, "superficial," first recorded 1580s. The noun, usually shallows, is first recorded 1570s, from the adjective.
