superficial

adjective as in without depth, detail

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cursory, frivolous, one-dimensional, perfunctory, silly, sketchy, slight, trivial

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apparent, casual, cosmetic, depthless, desultory, empty, evident, exterior, external, flash, flimsy, general, glib, half-baked, hasty, hurried, ignorant, inattentive, lightweight, nodding, on the surface, ostensible, outward, partial, passing, peripheral, quick-fix, seeming, shallow, shoal, skin-deep, slapdash, smattery, summary, surface, tip of the iceberg, uncritical, warped

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“He’s very sad about what happened ... He ended up with a lot of superficial injuries and I think she probably did too,” Dugan said.

From Los Angeles Times

However, the commission stressed these visits were not considered to be inspections - and one parent of a patient at the facility described them as "superficial".

From BBC

He said his vision wasn’t affected, reiterating that the injury was superficial.

From Los Angeles Times

The sandwich case was meant to be a show of strength; instead, it is serving as a symbol of the administration’s superficial posturing.

From Salon

These claims about their core principles are superficial and ephemeral.

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