superficial

superficially | American Dictionary

superficially
adverb
us/ˌsu·pərˈfɪʃ·ə·li/

superficiallyadverb (SLIGHTLY)

in a small way; slightly:
Half asleep, I was only superficially aware of what was going on.

superficiallyadverb (NOT IN DEEP WAY)

on the surface only; in a way that is not deep or complete:
Superficially, these books are very different.

Examples of superficially

superficially
The following chapters, though superficially presenting the appearance of disconnected essays, really possess a strong bond of continuity.
These examples are at least superficially consistent with a dual process approach.
Besides a great mass of formalists - barely interested in actual languages - the ' armchair ' typologists produce slight generalizations based on superficially gathered information.
But the big issue (here surfacing as the superficially innocent question, how do we acquire, modify, and appropriately activate coordinated control programs?) remains unresolved.
There are two superficially similar puzzles which should not be confused with our difficulty here.
Second, the substrate and superstrate morphemes should be syntactically congruent, at least superficially.
These essential stages in the planning cycle are dealt with somewhat superficially.
Moreover, in doing so - in escaping or exposing its own 'strategies of containment' - narrative foregrounds that which it has, superficially, suppressed.
As is no doubt obvious, implementing a natural lottery rule is superficially identical to the standard practice of negligence law.
Our systems and theirs involve indexed operations for thinning and substitution, and therefore look superficially alike.
Indeed, whenever a diary writer edits or otherwise revises entries, ' ' these superficially private writings become unmistakably public documents, intended for an external readership.
Superficially, these definitions might seem interchangeable, but they are not.
In short, when examined in detail, a superficially intact ability turned out to be associated with quite atypical cognitive and brain processes.
The focus of the book is less on biological issues than on algorithms (although alignment of nucleotide and amino acid sequences are only superficially covered).
This arrangement may resemble superficially a sunken epithelium, but careful observation at ultrastructural level reveals that these structures are completely different.
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