About The Word Meretricious
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Meretricious
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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`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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