How To Use Meretricious In A Sentence
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Not the old, proud, quietly beautiful gold that was cherished to them, but the meretricious, cheap, glaring bright gold that seemed to try too hard at being beautiful.
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Stars no longer have the guts to protest such meretricious displays of ego and decadence with their absence, or to inappropriately hijack award shows for their own political purposes.
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But anniversaries do provide an excuse to look beyond the meretricious present and pepper the pages of our pallid and alliteration-strewn papers with remembrances of times past.
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As the Telegraph explains, critics universally enjoy rubbishing his work - just poster art, says the Guardian, meretricious rubbish, says the Times.
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a meretricious argument
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It is still rationalized by an elaborate and traditional, even if meretricious, theory of consumer demand.
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‘A mendacious, monkey-brained leader with a meretricious, money-grabbing wife’, he says, just to give you a little more context.
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The Aeneid has none of the meretricious involutions of plot, none of the puzzling half-uttered allusions to essential facts, none of the teasing interruptions of the neoteric story book.
Vergil
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The work appears in a most pleasing form — I shall be glad to see him and am convinced from his writings that he is an amiable man I perceive no fopperies — no meretricious ornaments, no language of bigotry and enthusiasm in
Letter 51
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By the time I exited grad school, the feeling of an era being over - however meretricious in some of its particulars the era might have been - was unmistakable.
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meretricious praise
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This dopey, loopy novel not only fails as literature but can't even deliver the cheap, meretricious thrills that make so many popular novels popular.
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But she looked sad, more real than Ella had ever seen her, all the meretriciousness, the desperate girlishness, gone.
Portobello
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We are so accustomed to meretricious cultural studies that when the real thing comes along, generous and suggestive, we may fail to see how many windows and veins it opens.
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They were attacked as meretricious and manipulative, but what is film-making anyway but that?
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Such art was also for the masses of the people who cannot pay for original art, save in its first uncertain developments, when the stagier it is, the blacker, the bolder, the more meretriciously pretty or fantastically horrible, the better it is relished by its public.
A Houseful of Girls
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If it is seduced consent, created by the meretricious fabrications of spin doctors, then democracy itself is at risk of degenerating.
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the boat is meretriciously decorated
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This movie is quite a box of tricks, and director Alan Parker has turned the handle at the side and cranked out two hours' worth of flashy, meretricious and deeply silly nonsense.
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Too often, it seemed to me, he was determined to discover in a literary work what was phony or meretricious rather than what was admirable.
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In France, the deterioration reached the point where the term rhétorique meant an undesirable hiding of meaning, in anything written, by excessive and meretricious ornament; this sense is still current in certain French circles.
RHETORIC AFTER PLATO
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I have omitted no exertion to prevent him and them from sinking to that level, to which the meretricious French faction, his Grace at least coquets with, omit no exertion to reduce both.
Paras. 20-39
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Two years later a meretricious curate pulled them down from the shelf and bought them.
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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.
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For this was the unfortunate moment which he chose to launch another of his impassioned diatribes at the worldliness, the luxury, the intrigues, the meretricious bedizenment of wealthy and high-born women.
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
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Now some meretricious construct called Big Brother - without value, meaning or even entertainment-value - seems to captivate the luckless viewer.
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But if millions of people can choose the meretricious rather than the meritorious in so simple a thing as coffee and cafés, is it sensible to give them the vote when much more complex issues are at stake?
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In stark contrast to the Dome, which symbolises all that is trashy and meretricious in contemporary Britain, the Great Exhibition was the wonder of its age, a living expression of the country's growing majesty.
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Richard Polwhele's "Unsexed Females," where he asks us to picture an "unsex'd" woman's body: "Scarce by a gossamery film carest,/Sport [s], in full view, the meretricious breast;" he then guides us to undress the woman farther, to "Loose the chaste cincture, where the graces shone,/And languish'd all the Loves, the ambrosial zone.
'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_
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There's something cheap about this sort of fake wisdom, something tawdry, meretricious, something… what's the word I'm looking for?
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a meretricious yet stylish book
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He claims that a lot of journalism is meretricious and superficial.
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Hathaway is suitably perky for her role, but there's no real humor here, the political edge is simply meretricious, and even the special effects stink.
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Most elections, like this one, are full of languor and anxious imitation, where any semblance of vision is replaced by meretricious showboating, of the kind for which Jospin had no talent.
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meretricious relationships
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Instead, it's a tedious and meretricious bore, and those are the worst kind.
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[5143] Another terms it the companion of all filthy delights and enticements, and 'tis not easily told what inconveniences come by it, what scurrile talk, obscene actions, and many times such monstrous gestures, such lascivious motions, such wanton tunes, meretricious kisses, homely embracings.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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To simplify matters, he took some photographs with him of Lee's gold-encrusted fist so he could be sure of getting something equally tawdry, ostentatious and meretricious.
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‘Glossy, meretricious crap,’ is his damning verdict.
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A wooden building painted to look like marble is meretricious.
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A wooden building painted to look like marble is meretricious.
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This sort of thing may be called tawdry, but it is not what I call meretricious.
The New Jerusalem
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But that's meretricious, in every sense of the term.
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Right now it is the basis of a big, splashy (it’s, in my view, meretricious) hit musical in London.
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Each time a whiny pop tune unceremoniously and semi-incongruously intrudes upon the soundtrack, we passively accept the meretriciously commercial reasons for the tune's existence.
