Synonym: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gilded, gimcrack, loud, specious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy. Similar words: capricious, avaricious, avariciously, capriciousness, vicious, officious, malicious, pernicious. Meaning: [‚merɪ'trɪʃəs] adj. 1. like or relating to a prostitute 2. tastelessly showy 3. based on pretense; deceptively pleasing.
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1, He claims that a lot of journalism is meretricious and superficial.
2, A meretricious populism and pretentious sectarianism have between them squeezed out everything else.
3, A more simplistic or more meretricious film would have played those two worlds against each other.
4, Her room was painted in meretricious technicolour.
5, He talks: Meretricious be in China, it is unexpectedly " public-operated enterprise " , it is a kind of industry that enters a system the earliest to change.
6, Let us see meretricious line of business again " in order to fill civil with " effect.
7, Everywhere there are meretricious actions and opportunism; everywhere there is an expectation of simple orders.
8, Of the meretricious splendour I had heard so much there is not a trace.
9, Meretricious course of study drinks to China the intellectual that make merry " in order to fill civil with " ,[http://sentencedict.com/meretricious.html] decency gives the literature of their the wording and purpose of what one writes.
10, I saw the beauty of Shangri-la, the meretricious of Dali, the impatience of Lijiang, and the uneducated people of Yunnan.
11, A wooden building painted to look like marble is meretricious.
12, Products range from the truly estimable and inspired to the merely pretty and, sometimes, meretricious.
13, He surfed big conditions with disdainful ease, a slightly meretricious casualness.
14, It's also curious how most of these groups have written at least one song about the meretricious lure of the capital.
15, It is still rationalized by an elaborate and traditional, even if meretricious, theory of consumer demand.
16, It was a platinum fob chain simple and chaste in design , properly proclaiming its value by substance alone and not by meretricious ornamentation——as all good things should do.
17, Place drifting wind and, chinese bookman is not had almost do not follow meretricious drink make merry, write Shi Manai.
18, The perspective just as moral truths, that are presented in their simplicity without the meretricious aids of ornament or glitter.
19, 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.
20, He has authority to put to death lascivious children, still can traffic children it is for slave meretricious .
21, The tea-party's version of the Revolution, however, shades far beyond kookiness and into the meretricious realm of "antihistory".
22, There is a difference between a padded bra and silicone implants—the padded bra can be safely removed after it has served its purpose; the "porn boob" has rendered the bra meretricious, obsolete.
23, Most of the other issues swirling in the lawyer-soldier tornado are either trivial or meretricious.
24, So it is not surprising that politically expedient assertions about China have become as American as fortune cookies, and as sententiously meretricious as the prophecies and advice these encase.
More similar words: capricious, avaricious, avariciously, capriciousness, vicious, officious, malicious, pernicious, judicious, delicious, auspicious, suspicious, judiciously, inauspicious, metric, do the trick, retribution, obstetrics, symmetrical, obstetrical, diametrically, patrician, gracious, specious, spacious, precious, electricity, electrician, conscious, tenacious.