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Meretricious

Meretricious Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Meretricious? [adj] based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument" [adj] tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [adj] (archaic) like or relating to a prostitute; "meretricious relationships" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Meretricious: brassy \| cheap \| flash \| flashy \| garish \| gaudy \| gilded \| gimcrack \| in poor taste(p) \| insincere \| loud \| specious \| tacky \| tasteless \| tatty \| tawdry \| trashy Related Terms \| Find terms related to Meretricious: affected \| apparent \| bedizened \| beggarly \| beneath contempt \| big-sounding \| blatant \| brazen \| brazenfaced \| cheap \| cheesy \| chintzy \| coarse \| colorable \| colored \| colorful \| common \| contemptible \| convoluted \| crass \| crude \| crummy \| deceptive \| declamatory \| delusive \| delusory \| despicable \| earthy \| elevated \| euphuistic \| extravagant \| fallen \| flagrant \| flamboyant \| flaming \| flaring \| flashy \| flaunting \| fulsome \| garish \| gaudy \| gilded \| gimcracky \| glaring \| Gongoresque \| gorgeous \| grandiloquent \| grandiose \| grandisonant \| gross \| harlot \| highfalutin \| high-flowing \| high-flown \| high-flying \| high-sounding \| hustling \| inkhorn \| insincere \| Johnsonian \| labyrinthine \| lexiphanic \| lofty \| loud \| lurid \| magniloquent \| mean \| miserable \| misleading \| obscene \| obtrusive \| on the \| on the town \| orotund \| ostensible \| ostentatious \| overdone \| overelaborate \| overinvolved \| overwrought \| paltry \| pathetic \| pave \| pedantic \| pitiable \| pitiful \| plausible \| pompous \| poor \| pretentious \| prostitute \| prostituted \| raw \| rhetorical \| ribald \| rough \| rubbishy \| rude \| sad \| scarlet \| screaming \| scrubby \| scruffy \| scummy \| scurvy \| scuzzy \| seeming \| sensational \| sensationalistic \| sententious \| shabby \| shameless \| shoddy \| showy \| sonorous \| sorry \| specious \| spectacular \| spurious \| stilted \| streetwalking \| tall \| tawdry \| tinsel \| tortuous \| trashy \| trumpery \| two-for-a-cent \| two-for-a-penny \| twopenny \| twopenny-halfpenny \| valueless \| vile \| vulgar \| whorish \| worthless \| wretched See Also \| Meretricious In Webster's Dictionary \Mer`etri"cious\, a. [L. meretricius, from meretrix, -icis, a prostitute, lit., one who earns money, i. e., by prostitution, fr. merere to earn, gain. See {Merit}.] 1. Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic. 2. Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry; as, meretricious dress or ornaments. -- {Mer`etri"ciously}, adv. -- {Mer`etri"cious*ness}, n.

Meretricious Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Meretricious?

[adj] based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"
[adj] tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
[adj] (archaic) like or relating to a prostitute; "meretricious relationships"

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Meretricious In Webster's Dictionary

\Mer`e*tri"cious\, a. [L. meretricius, from
meretrix, -icis, a prostitute, lit., one who earns money, i.
e., by prostitution, fr. merere to earn, gain. See {Merit}.]
1. Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with
   harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic.

2. Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show;
   gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry; as,
   meretricious dress or ornaments. -- {Mer`e*tri"cious*ly},
   adv. -- {Mer`e*tri"cious*ness}, n.

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