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She has only superficial knowledge on the subject.superficial = shallow
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Her injuries are only superficial.superficial = minor (on the surface)
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The coaches have superficial similarities, but they are very different in their approach.superficial = surface level
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Her thinking was superficial.superficial = shallow (not deep or penetrating)
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The burns were only superficial.superficial = on the surface (not deep)
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Don't let superficial differences blind you to the common source of the problem.superficial = surface (not deep or important)
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Hurricane damage to the building was only superficial.superficial = minor (on the surface)
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The report is superficial and inadequate.superficial = surface level (not deep or penetrating)
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Superficially the request was casual, but there was something in his eyes which made me agree without hesitation. (source)Superficially = "on the surface" (kind of like saying "if you didn't look or think too deeply")
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When we went in, and I had removed her bonnet and coat, I took her on my knee; kept her there an hour, allowing her to prattle as she liked: not rebuking even some little freedoms and trivialities into which she was apt to stray when much noticed, and which betrayed in her a superficiality of character, inherited probably from her mother, hardly congenial to an English mind.† (source)
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The public schools were about as good as public schools got in South Florida, and for all its superficialities, Boca Raton had an excellent park system, including some of the most pristine ocean beaches in the Miami-Palm Beach metropolitan area.† (source)
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Right now you're just superficially involved, but with more knowledge your spirit will be drawn in as well, and then it will mean real trouble.† (source)
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I too should agree to many of your reforms, but ...' 'Then we suspected that talk, perpetual talk, and nothing but talk, about our social diseases, was not worth while, that it all led to nothing but superficiality and pedantry;† (source)
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All of them, without exception, clung to some dogma or other, satisfied with words and superficialities, but Father Nikolai had gone through Tolstoyism and revolutionary idealism and was still moving forward.† (source)
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Mom thought it was superficial to worry about how you looked. (source)superficial = shallow (worrying too much about unimportant things)
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Others blamed other migrants, and began to move, in the manner of cards dealt from a shuffled deck during the course of a game, reassembling themselves in suits and runs of their own kind, like with like, or rather superficially like with superficially like, all the hearts together, all the clubs together, all the Sudanese, all the Hondurans.† (source)
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