All 4 Uses of
superficial
in
The House of Mirth
- Her relation with her aunt was as superficial as that of chance lodgers who pass on the stairs.†
Chpt 1.13 *
- Mrs. Fisher's unconventionality was, after all, a merely superficial divergence from an inherited social creed, while the manners of the Gormer circle represented their first attempt to formulate such a creed for themselves.†
Chpt 2.6
- But his dapper self-confidence seemed impenetrable to such hints, and she had a sense of something hard and self-contained behind the superficial warmth of his manner.†
Chpt 2.7
- These were her superficial considerations; but under them lurked the secret dread that the obligation might not always remain intolerable.†
Chpt 2.10
Definition:
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(superficial) relating to a surface rather than to anything deep or penetrating (often of injuries or thinking)