What (who) is meretricious - definition
meretricious
a.
1.
Of harlots.
2.
Libidinous, lustful.
3.
Deceitful (by false show), spurious, false, sham, make-believe, tawdry, showy, gaudy.
meretricious
If you describe something as meretricious, you disapprove of it because although it looks attractive it is actually of little value. (FORMAL)
...vulgar, meretricious and shabby souvenirs.
ADJ [disapproval]
Meretricious
·adj Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic.
II. Meretricious ·adj Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry; as, meretricious dress or ornaments.
Pronunciation examples for meretricious
1. meretricious.
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2. or rather meretricious.
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3. What's meretricious, Dad?
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4. It is a meretricious fandango of imported systems,
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Examples of use of meretricious
1. Both men provided much meretricious intellectual justification for the war.
2. The U.S. economy made a complete recovery once the Americans entered the war." That is disgracefully meretricious –– and familiar.
3. But electors become bored, and the attractions of the superficial and the meretricious should not be underrated.
4. A particularly meretricious version suggests that opposition to American foreign policy, or even criticism of neoconservatives, is really a coded form of anti–semitism.
5. According to some reports, Mrs Blair‘s meretricious work is being rushed into the bookshops so that her effort will not be left behind by rival memoirs.