0 in a way that measures only a short distance from the top to the bottom, or from where something is to the ground or surface:
1 in a way that does not show serious or careful thought:
The show features a wide, if shallowly portrayed, cast of characters.
Live shallowly, and you will find yourself surrounded by shallow people.
To avoid baking in the dry sun, sunbathers lie in the pool on shallowly submerged platforms.
The site contains skeletons of people who appear to have been hastily and shallowly interred.
In some countries, democracy has turned out to be shallowly rooted.
You can almost feel the audience breathing shallowly, so as not to miss a thing.
The melodrama of the threatened friendship is handled shallowly but engagingly.
Visual art is not like a novel in that you can consume the whole thing at a glance, albeit shallowly.
