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Meaning veneer meaning

What does veneer mean?

veneer

— noun coating consisting of a thin layer of superior wood glued to a base of inferior wood — verb cover with veneer veneer the furniture to protect it — noun (= facing) an ornamental coating to a building

Synonyms veneer synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as veneer?

veneer English » English

varnish plywood coat veneering facing enamel sheet semblance plate laminate gild face coating top dressing thick china surface superficial coat shellac plating pave paste panel board overlay outward appearance look layer laminated board lamina lacquer gussy up glue gloss glaze foil facet facade covering bind attach appearance

Conjugation veneer conjugation

How do you conjugate veneer?

veneer · verb

Examples veneer examples

How do I use veneer in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

Under this veneer we're all savages.
There's a time for gaiety and a time for gravity. One doesn't want too many scratches in the veneer.
But occasionally one is forced to realize that this is only a veneer.
It strips our minds from us. It brings a madness which rips away our veneer of civilisation.
Scratch the Victorian veneer. and something nasty'll come crawling out.
Sad, he was brilliant at university, and you know, I've always felt that under that veneer that he was totally isolated.
Showed me what we really look like when the veneer's gone.
Just remember-- under that placid Federation veneer humans are still a bunch of violent savages.
Under all that veneer is a very soulful young attorney.
Oh, that was just a veneer.
That brooding veneer is part of your appeal but I thought I'd broken through most of it.
Well, it tinges all the other charges with a wonderful veneer of doubt.
Maybe some kind ofwood veneer.
The veneer is starting to peel.
One doesn't want too many scratches in the veneer.
Everyone wants to live, so we shed our civilised veneer.
The veneer cracks fast. What is she talking about?
She's so cruse. It's her veneer.
The dioxin veneer has kept the blood remarkably fresh.
So I'm drilling, thus, breaking the veneer on the fronts.
Look, you may have a worldly wise veneer but I got ties older than you.
You know, when you think about it the only time people ever really seem to express themselves is when they're passionate and that polite veneer of society drops off.
Maybe some kind of wood veneer.
If you're only using 9-mm thick veneer, you've got to make sure it's a tight fit.
It brings a madness which rips away our veneer of civilisation.
APPRAISER: The real clue here is the veneer.
Veneer. Veneer!
It features a variety of veneers. Veneer. Veneer!

News and current affairs

The realities, meticulously hidden under a veneer of homogeneity, have always been too complex for even the most discerning of scholars.
And France, beneath its veneer of republican equality, is culturally and ethnically diverse.
That would have painted the new regime with a veneer of democratic legitimacy, giving it greater authority.
True, the Istanbul summit in late June produced a veneer of harmony, and NATO headquarters is, as usual, busying itself with frequent meetings of now 26 national delegations, innumerable committees, and the mountains of printed paper it churns out.
Lacking convictions, he could be everything to everybody from new left to center with any socialist taint concealed by the industrialist-advisors who lent Schroeder a Blairite and Clintonian veneer.
It is at moments such as these that we realize how thin a veneer our civilization may be.
In the Netherlands, Wilders - more a one-man show than the leader of a real party - has already been in government, thereby providing a veneer of legitimacy to Le Pen simply by forming an alliance with her.
This is one reason why London has experienced the other, darker side of the multicultural society: the veneer of multiculturalism is thin.
Beneath the veneer of integration into a multicultural environment, many people - especially young men with an immigrant background - are lost in the world of contradictions around them.
In record time, he has managed to lose his veneer of competence, credibility, and steely leadership.
Such power also serves as the moral veneer to the assertiveness often involved in the pursuit of any particular cause or interest.

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