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adj. appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms; "left their clothes dirty looking"; "a most disagreeable looking character"; "angry-looking"; "liquid-looking"; "severe-looking policemen on noble horses"; "fine-sounding phrases"; "taken in by high-sounding talk"

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seeming, ostensible, apparent

adj. appearing as such but not necessarily so; "for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent"; "the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies"; "the ostensible truth of their theories"; "his seeming honesty"

dilettante, dilettantish

adj. showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish; "his dilettantish efforts at painting"

facile

adj. arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth; "too facile a solution for so complex a problem"

shallow, glib

adj. lacking intellectual depth: "glib generalizations"; "shallow people"

summary, potted

adj. (British informal) summarized or abridged; "a potted version of a novel"

slight, sketchy

adj. almost no or (with `a') at least some; very little; "there's slight chance that it will work"; "there's a slight chance it will work"

surface, skin-deep

adj. involving a surface only; "her beauty is only skin-deep"; "superficial bruising"; "a surface wound"

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