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What does skin-deep mean?

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Adjective
  1. (figuratively) shallow, superficial.
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But that remedy is only skin-deep, is not permanent and does not solve the fundamental problems of pride and acceptance.
All of these are pursued with little confidence and Roth's insight into romance and Hollywood cynicism are never more than skin-deep.
Can any radicalism that has not gazed upon this dreadful Gorgon be anything other than skin-deep?
The chemicals in an innocent-looking wash bag can make disturbing reading when you consider that make-up isn't just skin-deep.
Enforced change only re-emphasises technologies of force and skin-deep commitment to change.
These kinds of events demonstrated that democracy and racial equality are skin-deep in America.

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