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Skin-deep

Skin-deep \Skin"-deep`\, a. Not deeper than the skin; hence, superficial.
--Lowell.

Wiktionary
skin-deep

a. (context figuratively English) shallow, superficial.

WordNet
skin-deep

adj. involving a surface only; "her beauty is only skin-deep"; "superficial bruising"; "a surface wound" [syn: superficial, surface(a)]

Usage examples of "skin-deep".

To him men present themselves individualised, and if they classify it is by some skin-deep accident of tint, some trick of the tongue, or habit of gesture, or such-like superficiality.

The subordinate part became less the defining characteristic of my womanhood, something only skin-deep, superficial, an accidental by-product that existed mostly in manners, made things easier, and that nobody paid much attention to.