The word "veneer" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that means a thin surface layer or coating that conceals the underlying material. You can use it to describe the superficial nature of something. For example: "His veneer of respectability concealed his true intentions."
Better than its Britcommy veneer suggests is Love, Rosie (Lionsgate, 15); another reworking of When Harry Met Sally's "just friends" quandary, it surprises not with its cutesy story, but with punchy visual stylings and the bittersweet connection forged by lovely leads Lily Collins and Sam Claflin.
It's a false democracy, she thinks, a veneer behind which powerful groups can slip in and assume power.
"The veneer of multi-ethnicity is in fact just that".
Her affinity with pop stars, whose music she almost certainly never listened to, was a symptom of a barely suppressed Bohemianism beneath the slightly chipped veneer of a hen-keeping home counties lady.
This perhaps isn't surprising - religious conservatives have a long and ignoble history of distorting research to fit their religious ethos, dressing up their biases with the veneer of science.
With Pedro Almodóvar among his producers, Szifrón offers sketches showing that beneath our civilised veneer, we're all wild at heart.
So, in lieu of values-based resonance, they adopt the far right's economic talking points and, Boston said, "slap a little bit of Christian veneer on it".
Dentists sometimes tell their patients that having a veneer fitted is as simple as sticking on a false nail.
But this time, Snowden's revelations pierced the veneer of government secrecy and ushered in perhaps the most open debate about surveillance powers in the NSA's 63-year history.
4chan didn't cause this, of course, but its reaction to the moral panic at the heart of this issue only justifies that panic and lends it a veneer of legitimacy – and the appearance of support, if you only look at the headline numbers.
"Lad culture" is a problematic term – it can attach a veneer of respectability to what's really "sexism with an alibi", and produce fatalistic "boys-will-be-boys" dismissals.
