veneer
noun
verb (used with object)
Origin of veneer
Synonyms for veneer
Related Words for veneer
layer, semblance, mask, gloss, coating, exterior, facade, guise, finish, leaf, covering, appearance, overlay, cover, surface, face, disguise, show, blanch, plateExamples from the Web for veneer
Contemporary Examples of veneer
But now that veneer is gone, and what remains is a callow man-child at odds with himself.
What's Happened to Don Draper? Why Everyone’s Favorite ‘Mad Men’ Stud Needs His Mojo BackLizzie Crocker
April 16, 2014
Of course, the fact that Tris faces and eviscerates her own anxiety lends the simulation scene a veneer of victory and autonomy.
Some of his preciousness is a veneer, however, for his fatalistic streak.
Ralph Fiennes Discusses ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel,’ J. Lo, and That ‘Seinfeld’ EpisodeMarlow Stern
March 6, 2014
But that veneer hides an inner drive so powerful that it risks turning on itself.
Are Female Long-Distance Runners More Prone To Suicidal Depression?Emily de la Bruyere
February 3, 2014
While it upholds a veneer of pretending that the Arab spring has benefitted Iran, in reality the opposite holds true.
Historical Examples of veneer
Or is it a factory, disguised with a veneer of the Puginesque?
The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 (of 2)Harry Furniss
A second time I glimpsed the Slav behind his veneer of civilization.
The Pirate of PanamaWilliam MacLeod Raine
Some have no veneer like this boor, and some have the polish, but they are all the same underneath.
In Apple-Blossom TimeClara Louise Burnham
Truthfulness is essential to culture, which, without it, will be only a veneer.
Girls and WomenHarriet E. Paine (AKA E. Chester}
This veneer had come unloosened in many places and was split up.
Jewish ChildrenSholem Naumovich Rabinovich