All 7 Uses
superficial
in
The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
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- —which perhaps was exactly why Ralph had made his old-time look of superficial sociability a reproach to him.†
Chpt 29 *superficial = relating to a surface rather than to anything deep or penetrating
- The words had been nothing superficially; but when in the light of deepening experience she had looked into them they had then appeared portentous.†
Chpt 42
- She explained that she had called on the Countess because she was the only person she knew in Florence, and that when she visited a foreign city she liked to see something more than superficial travellers.†
Chpt 44superficial = relating to a surface rather than to anything deep or penetrating
- Henrietta had never prevaricated in her life, and, though on this occasion there might have been a fitness in doing so, she decided, after thinking some minutes, to make no superficial exception.†
Chpt 44
- She threw herself into it, for now that she had made such a point of keeping her conscience clear, that was one way of proving she had not been superficial—the more so as the years, in their flight, had rather enriched than blighted those peculiarities which had been humorously criticised by persons less interested than Isabel, and which were still marked enough to give loyalty a spice of heroism.†
Chpt 47
- The right thing would have been that Miss Stackpole should come to dine at Palazzo Roccanera once or twice, so that (in spite of his superficial civility, always so great) she might judge for herself how little pleasure it gave him.†
Chpt 47
- It seemed to her she should never again feel a superficial embarrassment.†
Chpt 53
Definitions:
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(1)
(superficial) relating to a surface rather than to anything deep or penetrating (often of injuries or thinking)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)