Superficially
[,suːpə'fɪʃ(ə)lɪ;,sjuː-] or ['sʊpɚ'fɪʃəli]
Definition
(adv.) in a superficial manner; 'he was superficially interested'.
Typist: Nathaniel--From WordNet
Examples
- He seemed to like nice details almost as much as I liked them myself: he seemed observant of character: and not superficially observanteither. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The end gained is the same, but the means, though appearing superficially to be the same, are essentially different. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- I was yesterday taken by surprise, and saw it superficially. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Then, recollecting herself, she turned to him rather radiantly, but still quite superficially, and said: 'Was it anything special? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- No one can any longer dismiss the fantasy because it is logically inconsistent, superficially absurd, or objectively untrue. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Typist: Nathaniel