meretricious
11meretricious — [[t]me̱rɪtrɪ̱ʃəs[/t]] ADJ GRADED (disapproval) 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 …
12meretricious — adjective /ˌmɛrɪˈtrɪʃəs,ˌmɛrəˈtrɪʃəs/ Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having no substance; falsely alluring. When I lifted my eyes from the page, there was none of the meretricious argument London always offers that the sole real… …
13meretricious — adjective formal seeming attractive but having no real value or not based on the truth: a meretricious argument meretriciously adverb meretriciousness noun (U) …
14meretricious — meretriciously, adv. meretriciousness, n. /mer i trish euhs/, adj. 1. alluring by a show of flashy or vulgar attractions; tawdry. 2. based on pretense, deception, or insincerity. 3. pertaining to or characteristic of a prostitute. [1620 30; < L… …
15meretricious — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, apparent, bedizened, beggarly, beneath contempt, big sounding, blatant, brazen, brazenfaced, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, coarse, colorable, colored, colorful, common, contemptible,… …
16meretricious — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. gaudy, flashy, loud, pretentious; see ornate 1 , specious . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Tastelessly showy: brummagem, chintzy, flashy, garish, gaudy, glaring, loud, tawdry, tinsel. Informal: tacky2. See STYLE …
17meretricious — mer|e|tri|cious [ ,merə trıʃəs ] adjective VERY FORMAL seeming to be good, useful, or important but not really having any value at all ╾ mer|e|tri|cious|ly adverb …
18meretricious — Vulgar, insincere …
19meretricious — mer·e·tri·cious || ‚merɪ trɪʃəs adj. alluring in a vulgar or gaudy way; wanton, lewd; cheap, loud; of or pertaining to a prostitute; deceptive, based on a falsehood …
20meretricious — [ˌmɛrɪ trɪʃəs] adjective 1》 showily attractive but lacking real value. 2》 archaic characteristic of a prostitute. Derivatives meretriciously adverb meretriciousness noun Origin C17: from L. meretricius (adjective from meretrix, meretric… …
