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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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Turner manages to put across this supreme shallowness with total sincerity.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Feb. 2026
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Still, that showiness in dialogue is latched to a shallowness of characterization.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
29 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Unlike its sibling concepts of dumbness and idiocy, stupidity isn’t really a personality trait.—
Jonny Thomson,
Big Think,
11 Feb. 2026
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Harry and Finis refused to play Jack Donahoe’s game of commenting on every idiocy that came across their desks.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Superficiality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superficiality. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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