Noun : a veneering of civilization.    From Dictionary.com. 

Noun : a cruel person with a veneer of kindliness.    From Dictionary.com. 

How well you have learned the art of veneering your character!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense] Reference

It is esteemed a very handsome wood for the purposes of veneering.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Present Picture of New South Wales (1811)] Reference

For veneering jobs only the minimum amount of glue should be used.    From Wordnik.com.  [3. Technological Application of the Press] Reference

The most often fault occuring with veneering works is glue penetration.    From Wordnik.com.  [3. Technological Application of the Press] Reference

KING: Wait a minute, the veneering of the teeth more than anything else?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2005] Reference

The visible end-grained wood of the outer string is to be lagged by veneering.    From Wordnik.com.  [2. Types of Straight Wooden Stairs] Reference

Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking bk 1: Joinery; bk 2: Shaping, veneering, finishing; bk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-10-01] Reference

If a person be honest and trustworthy, the art of veneering is almost beyond his grasp.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference

A little gentle rubbing off of the "mamma's-good-little-boy" veneering would do him good.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Witness] Reference

Sweat drips from my forehead, fogging the scope, veneering the sparse mustache tracing my lip.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hunter] Reference

All the artful veneering she could ever put upon her words or actions had no power to deceive me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference

By the subject “veneering” we understand the gluing of a thin wooden layer on to a basic material.    From Wordnik.com.  [3. Technological Application of the Press] Reference

Socialism is not a thing which can be glued like a piece of veneering over this rotten social system of ours.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference

Scratch through the veneering here and, whether coarse or highly polished, you will find the same individual -- self.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quiet Talks on Power] Reference

This method is often used previous to veneering the face side of the box with rare veneers, and it is also useful for repair work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used.] Reference

As to the church's decoration, marble slabs pieces were noted in several places, suggesting the building had marble wall veneering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Survey Report 9] Reference

A mind polished so that the "rough" cannot manifest itself, a little veneering of knowledge and showy accomplishments, but a heart, alas!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense] Reference

The manufacturing of a good surface is the precondition for a further working on surfaces by varnishing, dulling, veneering and polishing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 2] Reference

But at 3 A.M. the veneering is off and you see the true grain of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Making of an American] Reference

This veneering process has been successfully employed on the Missouri.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life on the Mississippi] Reference

World; and despite the veneering of royalty, Maryland came soon to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [England in America, 1580-1652] Reference

A piece of the veneering had been knocked off, completely disfiguring it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper] Reference

Before vacuum veneering, I fill up the empty space at the inside of each section.    From Wordnik.com.  [UUpdates - All updates] Reference

This afternoon in the woodshop, I am continuing work on veneering my tie cabinets.    From Wordnik.com.  [UUpdates - All updates] Reference

Innovative real wood veneering process for seats, door armrests, and the driver area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Speed] Reference

I had thought that at least it would be caked on the outside of it like a kind of veneering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roughing It] Reference

How much better to have had a thin tablet or veneering of marble or iron adjusted to the back of the book.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1] Reference

There was a ponderous old mahogany bureau, with the veneering cracked and peeled, and a bed to correspond.    From Wordnik.com.  [With the Procession] Reference

I have had a rather startling glimpse of Lena Vokins, with all the laboriously acquired veneering peeling off.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking] Reference

"A mere trifle; it is only a thin veneering just to give a secure and comfortable foothold," remarked the professor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure] Reference

There was a specious justice in them veneering their cruelty; I am glad to say that I gave utterance to none of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King's Mirror] Reference

It was a very thin veneering of mediævalism which covered his modern creed; and the mixture is not particularly edifying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)] Reference

Mercedes-Benz engineers employed an innovative technology designed especially for the veneering of three-dimensional surfaces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Speed] Reference

The circular facing is best made by first sawing a segment of the circle of the size wanted and then veneering the outer surface of this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 3] Reference

He had been a good scholar in college, not so much by hard study as by skilful veneering, and had taken great pains to stand well with the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian Angel] Reference

She has, I soon discovered, a veneering of intelligence, and a smattering of information on a number of subjects useful in a drawing-room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chauffeur and the Chaperon] Reference