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meretricious::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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meretricious relationships.
Examples of meretricious
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Google-generated kadosh is meretricious, offering a desiccated kind of choice.
From the theatlantic.com
Give me meretricious and quotidian and calumny and inchoate, but not roster.
From the mattcutts.com
Sure enough, there are stretches that are trivial, meretricious, illegible and dull.
From the time.com
They're influential and deserve to be exposed for propounding meretricious reasoning.
From the washingtontimes.com
Mussolini's 23-year regime, she says, was as meretricious as it was vile.
From the guardian.co.uk
We're so snooty about the U.S. and its alleged meretricious consumerism.
From the time.com
Sixty-year-old Hector is meretricious, showy, outrageous, eccentric.
From the post-gazette.com
Enablers every bit as culpably meretricious, in the most literal sense, as the politicians.
From the guardian.co.uk
You can complain all you want about declining reporting standards, meretricious management etc.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Like or relating to a prostitute; "meretricious relationships"
- Brassy: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
- Gilded: based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"
- (meretriciousness) speciousness: an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility; "the speciousness of his argument"
- (meretriciousness) flashiness: tasteless showiness
- Prostitution is the act or practice of providing sexual services to another person in return for payment. People who execute such activities are called prostitutes. Prostitution is one of the branches of the sex industry. ...
- Of, or relating to prostitutes or prostitution; Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having no substance; falsely alluring
- Based on pretense, deception, or insincerity
- 1. pertaining to or characteristic of a prostitute 2. alluring by false, showy charms; tawdry
