meretricious in English

adjective
1
apparently attractive but having in reality no value or integrity.
meretricious souvenirs for the tourist trade
2
of, relating to, or characteristic of a prostitute.

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1. Meretricious.

2. Her room was painted in meretricious technicolour.

3. 19 He surfed big conditions with disdainful ease, a slightly meretricious casualness.

4. A wooden building painted to look like marble is meretricious.

5. 11 synonyms for Brummagem: chintzy, flashy, garish, gaudy, glaring, loud, meretricious

6. He claims that a lot of journalism is meretricious and superficial.

7. He surfed big conditions with disdainful ease, a slightly meretricious casualness.

8. Everywhere there are meretricious actions and opportunism; everywhere there is an expectation of simple orders.

9. A more simplistic or more meretricious film would have played those two worlds against each other.

10. Of the meretricious splendour I had heard so much there is not a trace.

11. Products range from the truly estimable and inspired to the merely pretty and, sometimes, meretricious.

12. The tea-party's version of the Revolution, however, shades far beyond kookiness and into the meretricious realm of "antihistory".

13. Synonyms for Brummagem include flashy, showy, loud, tacky, garish, tawdry, glaring, meretricious, cheap and glitzy

14. Place drifting wind and, chinese bookman is not had almost do not follow meretricious drink make merry, write Shi Manai.

15. Most of the other issues swirling in the lawyer-soldier tornado are either trivial or meretricious.

16. It's also curious how most of these groups have written at least one song about the meretricious lure of the capital.

17. He has authority to put to death lascivious children, still can traffic children it is for slave meretricious .

18. The perspective just as moral truths, that are presented in their simplicity without the meretricious aids of ornament or glitter.

19. I saw the beauty of Shangri-la, the meretricious of Dali, the impatience of Lijiang, and the uneducated people of Yunnan.

20. He talks: Meretricious be in China, it is unexpectedly " public-operated enterprise " , it is a kind of industry that enters a system the earliest to change.

21. So it is not surprising that politically expedient assertions about China have become as American as fortune cookies, and as sententiously meretricious as the prophecies and advice these encase.

22. It was a platinum fob chain simple and chaste in design , properly proclaiming its value by substance alone and not by meretricious ornamentation——as all good things should do.

23. There is a difference between a padded bra and silicone implants—the padded bra can be safely removed after it has served its purpose; the "porn boob" has rendered the bra meretricious, obsolete.

24. As a result, I always made the mistake of overlapping. Till now, I am still fond of Strange Tles from a Scholar's Studio and the meretricious Paris fashionable dress reports for their appealing words.

25. ‘The local Curate expressed understanding at their sense of loss.’ ‘Two years later a meretricious Curate pulled them down from the shelf and bought them.’ ‘After his studies he returned to Galway Diocese and was appointed a Curate in Salthill.’ ‘He has now been appointed a diocesan Curate in …