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UK
/sˈuːpəfˈɪʃəlˌi/
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[ US /ˈsupɝˌfɪʃəɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈsupɝˌfɪʃəɫi/ ]
ADVERB
-
in a superficial manner
he was superficially interested
How To Use superficially In A Sentence
- Superficially, the rationale of the style would seem to be its conjuncture of sensitivity and showmanship.
- The labellum indument resembles, although superficially, that of the hairy areas of an insect tegument.
- In budding, aggregates of cells differentiate into small sponges that are released superficially or expelled through the oscula.
- Death adders are terrestrial elapids who superficially resemble vipers.
- We cannot call a man's work superficial when it is the creation of a world; a man cannot be accused of dealing superficially with the world which he himself has created; the superficies is the world. Ben Jonson
- Also, a brief overview of the story is contained, but it is cursory and superficially overviewed here, and doesn't spoil or resolve anything.
- If words on a page can’t compete any more with a film as regards creating a completely detailed and filmically accurate presentation of a story*, then writers will start to look for what writing can do that cinema can’t, and try and get at the reality of their subject through using superficially “unrealistic” techniques. Cheeseburger Gothic » Friday writing blog: point of view.
- The proximal aulacophore is polymerous, rather than tetramerous (as in most other stylophorans) and superficially similar to that of the earliest stylophoran, Ceratocystis.
- Many books that are superficially history books are easily detected as political propaganda or inspirational froth.
- Jesus demands that the people look to their deeds before all else, reviles wealth and importance, insists that the lowliest, least superficially deserving of beggars is more readily accepted by God than those who trumpet achievement and virtue. He Ain’t Heavy « Tales from the Reading Room