veneered

veneer | American Dictionary

veneer
noun[ C/U ]
us/vəˈnɪər/
a thin layer of decorative wood or other material used to cover a cheaper or less attractive material:
[ C ]It’s a pine table with a mahogany veneer.
A veneer is also something that hides something unpleasant or unwanted:
[ U ]His ethics are pure veneer.

Examples of veneer

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In addition, the forest sectors produced such value-added products as veneers, woodchips, and furniture products.
In each formation, the ignimbrite veneers locally grade laterally into more restricted valley-fills (predominantly of pumiceous massive lapilli-tuff facies) within small palaeo-wadis.
The lower parts of the walls were generally panelled or veneered with slabs of marble in white and colours.
Usually floodplains are not veneers of alluvium explicable by lateral channel movements, but considerable thicknesses smoothing over more complex relief.
Many of our modern reefs may be interglacial reefs, karstified during low glacial sea levels and now veneered with a capping of modern coral.
In the case of sliced veneers a baulk of timber is clamped and slices are peeled off it by a machine very like a large plane.
However, when the surface veneers dry, as in the hot sun, they are subjected to cross-grain tension and may thus" check", that is produce a large number of small cracks.
Moreover, in woodworking, thinner veneers expanded the ranges of household and office furniture that could be, at least in part, made from scarce or imported hardwoods.
Moisture penetrating the veneer of the brick panel is solar heated during the day, causing moisture within the brick panel to evaporate.
In its worst guise, a preoccupation with the image leads to a superficial veneer of facadism, arguably a new picturesque, but one devoid of meaning.
What is required ethically is honesty: self-interest should not, so far as possible, be hidden under a veneer of concern for others.
Alternative viewpoints, as in other areas of society, have to be indulged in as subtexts, understood by initiates while preserving the veneer of normality.
The other elevations of the cathedral are also decorated with marble veneer, carving and mosaic.
Rather than fading, the segregationists' crime-race argument was reframed, with a slightly different veneer, and became the fulcrum of the conservative's proposed agenda on crime.
There is not a single prejudice that cannot be veneered over by idealisation of some kind.
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