OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 42021

skin-deep

Meanings (ES + gloss)
superficial
Shallow, superficial.
Dead enough; to live thenceforth a galvanic life of mere Stump-Oratory; screeching and gibbering, words without wisdom, without veracity, without conviction more than skin-deep.
Would the wicked river drag me down by the heels, indeed? and look so beautiful all the time? Nature’s good-humour was only skin-deep after all.
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