ADJECTIVE
  1. penetrating no deeper than the skin:
    her beauty is only skin-deep
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  • She spoke for cosmeticians around the world when she retorted, ‘I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep.’
  • her beauty is only skin-deep
  • As the first truly skyscraping tower built in the City since 1979, this building cannot be accused of being a monotonous skin-deep icon.
  • H is political commitment is only skin-deep.
  • An online profile allows someone to get more than a skin-deep glimpse of you.
  • But their austerity and ceremoniousness are skin-deep. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
  • We don't need the actresses of this world to tell us that beauty is only skin-deep or that, shock, horror, the ageing process is irreversible.
  • And in that 'Picnic' he found his own forgotten work, 'In the Open Air,' the same light key of colour, the same artistic formula, but softened, trickishly rendered, spoilt by skin-deep elegance, everything being 'arranged' with infinite skill to satisfy the low ideal of the public. His Masterpiece
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