Veneer is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for VENEER in dictionary:

VERB:
• to overlay with thin layers of material
• cover (something) with a decorative layer of fine wood
• To overlay or plate with a thin layer of wood or other material for outer finish or decoration; as, to veneer a piece of furniture with mahogany. Used also figuratively.
• A thin leaf or layer of a more valuable or beautiful material for overlaying an inferior one, especially such a thin leaf of wood to be glued to a cheaper wood; hence, external show; gloss; false pretense.
• cover with veneer
• cover (a surface) with a veneer
• cover or disguise (someone or something's true nature) with an attractive appearance
NOUN:
• a thin decorative covering of fine wood applied to a coarser wood or other material
• a layer of wood used to make plywood.
• a crown in which the restoration is placed over the prepared surface of a natural crown.
• thin layer of wood etc covering a cheaper material
• coating consisting of a thin layer of superior wood glued to a base of inferior wood
• an ornamental coating to a building
• an attractive appearance that covers or disguises someone or something's true nature or feelings

Words related to VENEER

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Words that contain VENEER

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How to use VENEER in a sentence

• Nor did they talk like gentlemen, despite the fact that there was nothing offensive in their bearing and that the veneer of ordinary social nicety was theirs.
• Sometimes, however, from the effects of concussion or of the body-weight, a fissure appears in the narrow veneer of horn that covers them.
• No one could tell at what moment the thin veneer of civilization might peel off and reveal the underlying savage.
• Like the furniture industry, the veneer mills lack adequate supplies of good timber.
• Sedalia has a veneer of most uncomfortable refinement.
• Cut off from civilization, conventional veneer soon wears away.
• The mere veneer of Christianity is fast fading off among the sects.
• How bitter! how relentless! The Catholic spirit of half a century ago was not operated on by the literature of a nation that is daily losing even the veneer of Christianity.
• They held hers, seeming to pierce the acquired veneer of reserve to the guarded places beneath.
• Recent centuries have cast only a thin veneer of modern thought over essentially medieval conceptions of national rights and duties.
• Neither of the two had anything to recommend him either in appearance or address, save a certain veneer of polite assumption as transparent as it was offensive.
• She knew instinctively that any such course would at once break down that thin veneer of restraint he was exercising.
• Such the old man was once, and all the elements of his broken youth are clearly visible under the hapless veneer of time for the one who has an eye to see.
• Just now, notwithstanding the veneer of his too perfect clothes and civilized air, the beast had leaped out.
• No other man before had got beneath the veneer of her worldliness.
• In a flash the savage, which, in the best of us, lies but skin-deep under the veneer of habit and the civilized conventions, leaped alive.
• Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
• Of course much of this was but veneer, and back of repartee and well-told story, we were intent upon our own problems.
• But respect for the shining veneer of the case was not long-lived.
• All these elements in folklore, magic and belief would endure, in the peasant class, under the veneer of civilisation.
• It is the source of considerable loss in the fancy veneer industry, as the veneer from valuable logs so affected drops to pieces.
• Syria and Phoenicia had become, as it were, covered with an African veneer, both religion and language being affected by Egyptian influence.
• The fall of the Roman Empire offered such a spectacle, when various types of barbarism, with a more or less classic veneer, re-established themselves everywhere.
• And the fact that so frequently he puts over it a thick veneer of materialism does not affect its quality.

Similar words containing VENE without suffix er

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