Synonyms for skin-deep
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : skin-deep |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈskɪnˈdip |
Définition of skin-deep
- adj superficial
- It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.
- Extract from : « Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience » by Henry David Thoreau
- Beauty is only skin-deep, but the nerves lie very near to the skin.
- Extract from : « Strictly Business » by O. Henry
- I have called myself "Skin-deep" ever since, day and night—the name I deserve.'
- Extract from : « The Amazing Marriage, Complete » by George Meredith
- It is but the exterior sign of good conduct, but may be no more than skin-deep.
- Extract from : « Character » by Samuel Smiles
- But if his words and writings are examined, it will be seen that this mobility was only skin-deep.
- Extract from : « My Recollections of Lord Byron » by Teresa Guiccioli
- Yet one ought to do him the justice to say that his vanity was only skin-deep.
- Extract from : « Voltaire » by John Morley
- We only scratch Nature skin-deep, and her wealds will devour our black countries.
- Extract from : « Northern Spain » by Edgar T. A. Wigram
- An address is only skin-deep, after all; besides, Streatham is pretty.
- Extract from : « Cynthia » by Leonard Merrick
- The Carcajieu may or may not be a beauty, but his look is only skin-deep anyhow.
- Extract from : « The Red River Half-Breed » by Gustave Aimard
- After all his personal taste for melodrama was only skin-deep.
- Extract from : « The Tree of Knowledge » by Mrs. Baillie Reynolds
Words or expressions associated with your search
- all skin and bones
- asking price
- bare skin
- bare-skinned
- basking
- basking in
- be knee deep in
- briny deep
- buskin
- by skin of ones teeth
- by skin of teeth
- by the skin of one's teeth
- by the skin teeth
- coonskin
- coonskin cap
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- dark skinned
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- deepness
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- deepsix
- deepsixing
- duskiness
- elephant skin
- fair-skinned
- feel deeply
- friskiness
- get under one's skin
- get under one skin
- get under skin
- give sheepskin
- in one's skin
- masking
- off deep end
- off the deep end
- onion skin
- risking
- sheepskin
- skin
- skin and bones
- skin-deep
- skin flick
- skin game
- skin grafting
- skin head
- skinned
- Skinnerian psychology
- skinniness
- skintight
- tasking
- the pigskin sport
- thick-skinned
- thin-skinned
- thin-skinned touchy
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