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shallowness

[ UK /ʃˈælə‍ʊnəs/ ]
[ US /ˈʃæɫoʊnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling
  2. 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.
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