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Meaning of meretricious
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
meretricious
adj 1: like or relating to a prostitute; "meretricious
relationships"
2: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish
colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a
meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn:
{brassy}, {cheap}, {flash}, {flashy}, {garish}, {gaudy},
{gimcrack}, {loud}, {meretricious}, {tacky}, {tatty},
{tawdry}, {trashy}]
3: based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and
perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious
praise"; "a meretricious argument" [syn: {gilded},
{meretricious}, {specious}]
WordNet ® Princeton University. http://wordnet.princeton.edu
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