Crossword clues for skin-deep
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.