skin-deep

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adjective
  1. superficial or slight; not profound or substantial: Their sincerity is only skin-deep.

adverb
  1. slightly; superficially: He went into the subject only skin-deep.

Origin of skin-deep

1
First recorded in 1605–15

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How to use skin-deep in a sentence

  • It is only later in life that ces demoiselles begin to find that their neighbour's beauty is but skin-deep.

    The Isle of Unrest | Henry Seton Merriman

British Dictionary definitions for skin-deep

skin-deep

adjective
  1. superficial; shallow

adverb
  1. superficially

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Other Idioms and Phrases with skin-deep

skin-deep

see beauty is only skin deep.

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