meretricious

Definition of Meretricious in English :

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Adjective

1. meretricious

like or relating to a prostitute

Example Sentences:
'meretricious relationships'

2. brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy

tastelessly showy

Example Sentences:
'a flash car'
'a flashy ring'
'garish colors'
'a gaudy costume'
'loud sport shirts'
'a meretricious yet stylish book'
'tawdry ornaments'

3. gilded, meretricious, specious

based on pretense; deceptively pleasing

Example Sentences:
'the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility'
'meretricious praise'
'a meretricious argument'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Meretricious

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adjective

1.

superficially or garishly attractive

2.

insincere

meretricious praise

3. archaic

of, like, or relating to a prostitute

Meretricious

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adjective

1. Obsolete

of, like, or characteristic of a prostitute

2.

alluring by false, showy charms; attractive in a flashy way; tawdry

3.

superficially plausible; specious

Meretricious

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adj.

1.

a. Attracting attention in a vulgar manner: meretricious ornamentation.

b. Plausible but false or insincere; specious: made a meretricious argument.

2. Of or relating to prostitutes or prostitution: meretricious relationships.

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