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Recent Examples of superficiality
Celebrity brands are often about luxury, prestige, or authenticity; products like cosmetics and liquors coast off fun and superficialities.
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Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 10 June 2025
Let go of your superficiality and lingering worries when the full moon in Sagittarius peaks a few days later.
—Liz Simmons, StyleCaster, 27 May 2025
What now? Read the full Cancer Daily Horoscope Leo (July 23 - August 22)
Sick of superficialities?
—Usa Today, USA Today, 12 May 2025
Before long, the two become friends, moving beyond the silly superficialities of their business deal and helping each other realize some deeper truths.
—Noel Murray, New York Times, 1 May 2025
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Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 10 June 2025
Let go of your superficiality and lingering worries when the full moon in Sagittarius peaks a few days later.
—Liz Simmons, StyleCaster, 27 May 2025
What now? Read the full Cancer Daily Horoscope Leo (July 23 - August 22)
Sick of superficialities?
—Usa Today, USA Today, 12 May 2025
Before long, the two become friends, moving beyond the silly superficialities of their business deal and helping each other realize some deeper truths.
—Noel Murray, New York Times, 1 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for superficiality
Recent Examples of Synonyms for superficiality
Noun
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His approach to peacemaking has suffered from an improbable degree of improvisation, exclusion of regional expertise, and consequentially, shallowness and flights of fancy.—
SERGEY RADCHENKO,
Foreign Affairs,
4 Dec. 2025
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The shallowness of the warm top layer would be vulnerable to mixing, as colder, heavy rain fell, driving the shallow water down and the deep water up.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Telling the story of the clashing egos and raging idiocy of the fictional Spinal Tap, Reiner both directed and starred as the filmmaker-within-the-film Marty DiBergi.—
Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
15 Dec. 2025
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Advertisement Aster keenly satirizes Joe’s idiocy in the face of social upheaval through the iconography of Westerns.—
Robert Daniels,
Time,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Superficiality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superficiality. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.
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