superficialistn.

a1691 R. Boyle Wks. (1744) I. 30 A solid knowledge of that mysterious language..(whatever is given out to the contrary by superficialists..) is, I say, somewhat difficult.

1730 A. Hill Plain Dealer (new ed.) I. i. 3 That large Part of Mankind, which consists of Superficialists, judging every Thing by Appearance.

1775 J. Jekyll Let. 31 May in Corr. (1894) ii. 28 As to the manners, I am at present but a mere superficialist.

1805 ‘E. de Acton’ Nuns of Desert I. 14 In understanding,..she was her equal, and by superficialists might have been deemed superior.

1874 Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. Soc. 6 189 But how partial and prejudiced the judgment of such superficialists!

1917 Musical Q. 3 25 Superficialists will tell you with unblushing effrontery that the appropriate, as opposed to the conventional, overture dates from Gluck.

1934 D. D. Henry William Vaughn Moody iii. 50 He had no patience with the trivialist or the superficialist and we find no trace of them in his poems.

2001 Yale French Stud. No. 100. 144 We need to put sufficient resources into training well-rounded specialists, not opportunistic superficialists.