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meretriciousness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | brashness, flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, glitz, loudness, tawdriness |
| Type of | tastelessness |
| Derivation | meretricious |
meretriciousness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | speciousness |
| Type of | deceptiveness, obliquity |
| Derivation | meretricious |
Examples of meretriciousness
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I am shocked to find that meretriciousness can gain you a job in mathematics.
From the newscientist.com
It has a simple garden unsullied by look-at-me meretriciousness.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The title is a measure of the political class's meretriciousness.
From the washingtonpost.com
In the Clintons'orbit, meretriciousness is as reflexive as a sneeze, and reflexes are not moral failures.
From the washingtonpost.com
Reading it becomes a suspenseful exercise in disbelief, in which the reader is sustained, as well as stunned, by Cain's inexhaustible capacity for compounding meretriciousness.
From the time.com
- Speciousness: an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility; "the speciousness of his argument"
- Flashiness: tasteless showiness
- (meretricious) brassy: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
- (meretriciously) in a meretricious manner; "the boat is meretriciously decorated"
- 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. ...
- (meretricious) Of, or relating to prostitutes or prostitution; Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having no substance; falsely alluring
- (meretricious) alluring by false, showy charms; attractive in a flashy way; tawdry.
- (meretricious) based on pretense, deception, or insincerity
