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Meretricious
Meretricious meaning
Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having in reality no value or substance; falsely alluring. | Involving unlawful sexual connection or lack of consent by at least one party (said of a romantic relationship). | Of, or relating to prostitutes or prostitution.
Example sentences (4)
He believed that Picasso’s was a meretricious work that should be burned and that mortadella was made by the blind.
Although critics proved hostile, with César Cui calling the symphony "routine" and "meretricious", both works were received with extreme enthusiasm by audiences and Tchaikovsky, undeterred, continued to conduct the symphony in Russia and Europe.
He has disdained superficial or meretricious effects.
She cuts the roses and puts them in vases, where they adorn her "meretricious vision of what makes for beauty" and begin to die.