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UK
/ʃˈæləʊnəs/
]
[ US /ˈʃæɫoʊnəs/ ]
[ US /ˈʃæɫoʊnəs/ ]
NOUN
- lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling
-
the quality of lacking physical depth
take into account the shallowness at that end of the pool before you dive
How To Use shallowness In A Sentence
- I perceive a certain shallowness to the "save the lake" movement here. Living Lakes
- In his novels of this period, as in his dress and manner, he deliberately attitudinized, a fact which in part reflected a certain shallowness of character, in part was a device to attract attention for the sake of his political ambition. A History of English Literature
- The push-button shallowness of ,emOff the Map means it's going to miss the epic tragi-comedy of what working overseas in aid, journalism or policy is really like. MP Nunan: "Off the Map" Is Off the Mark
- The character is used to demonstrate the occasional shallowness of our society.
- The thinness of the coverage and the shallowness of the analysis seem a direct outgrowth of the networks' steady disengagement from the world in recent years.
- He argues the shallowness in the use of military power in the past administration and then emphatically debunks the 'casualty myth'.
- Either way, the result is unrelieved shallowness.
- In contrast, a pedant is a supercilious show-off who drops references to Sophocles and masks his shallowness by using words like “fulgent” and “supercilious.” Archive 2008-11-01
- The danger is that we should confuse the reputability of beliefs, and the reputability of those who professed them, with depth or shallowness.
- This is why the search for true happiness will inevitably start to expose the shallowness of our lives.