veneer

1. (transitive, woodworking) To apply veneer to.Examples: "to veneer a piece of furniture with mahogany"; "The stateroom walls are veneered with finely figured English chestnut with the skirting and mouldings in English walnut."transitive

2. (transitive, figurative) To disguise with apparent goodness.Examples: "[O]ne / Discuss'd his tutor, rough to common men / But honeying at the whisper of a lord; / And one the Master, as a rogue in grain / Veneer'd with sanctimonious theory."; "The currently advocated Family Protection Act, which thinly veneers its discriminatory attitudes about strict social conformity and the disallowance of individual choice with a stated concern for today's social fabric."figurativelytransitive