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Don't let her veneer of kindness deceive you.veneer = a thin layer of better wood glued to a base of inferior wood
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It is made of laminated layers of plywood covered with a walnut veneer.veneer = a thin layer of anything added to make something look better
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Pith helmets with netting, tools, and wax candles hung from nails near the front door, and a thin veneer of honey lay across everything. (source)veneer = layer
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Just shows you, that Robinson boy was legally married, they say he kept himself clean, went to church and all that, but when it comes down to the line the veneer's mighty thin. (source)veneer = a thin layer of anything added to make something look better
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What was of worth was not me, but the veneer of constraints and observances that obscured me.† (source)
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John Sawtelle got work at the veneer mill in town and rented out the fields Schultz had cleared.† (source)
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Were I to break through the veneer of snow over a hidden crevasse, though, the curtain rods would, I hoped mightily, span the slot and keep me from dropping into the frozen depths of the Baird.† (source)
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Pity links us in a perverted way, transcending our veneers, joining us in our vulnerability, and at the same time distancing us from one another.† (source)
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An hour later, when the sun had melted black patches on the barn's frost-veneered roof, Tom led out one of the colts he'd started the previous week and swung himself up into the saddle.† (source)
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With the Republicans in the political saddle the town entered into an era of waste and ostentation, with the trappings of refinement thinly veneering the vice and vulgarity beneath.† (source)
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Of course, it's not like racism is gone completely, but as my dads like to say, the veneer of civilization got itself a second coat.† (source)
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Whenever we first opened its door at the top of the creaky narrow stairs we smelled the fresh veneers of pine oil and bleach and lemon balm.† (source)
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Adams's desk, a beautiful French escritoire of veneered satinwood and ebony, which he had bought in Paris after the war, was his particular pride and joy.† (source)
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I used to sit in front of it, with Richard, the light flickering on us, and on our glasses, each with its coaster to protect the veneer.† (source)
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The front of thin veneers was cut out to make a pretty pattern and there was old-rose silk behind this fretted wood design.† (source)
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They were merely two-room shanties, with a seepage of broken-down chairs, peeling veneered tables, chromos pasted on wooden walls, and inefficient kerosene stoves.† (source)
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