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superficially

Adverb

Meaning

in a superficial manner

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The problem of meaning today is the problem of how the diverse and superficially self-contradictory experiences of men can be put into a consistent picture that will provide contemporary man with a convincing basis from which to live and to act. Carroll Quigley

Being superficially different is the goal of so many of the products we see... rather than trying to innovate and genuinely taking the time, investing the resources and caring enough to try and make something better. Jonathan Ive

It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially. Donna Tartt

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

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. Francis Bacon

Better to learn one thing well than to know ten superficially. Chinese Proverb

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