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meretricious
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meretricious adjective artificial, brummagem, cheap, counterfeit, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, fake, false, fraudulent, garish, gaudy, imitation, misleading, mock, ornate, sham, showy, speciously attractive, spurious, tawdry, theatrical, tinsel, vulgar
Associated concepts: adultery, meretricious relationship
See also: dishonest, disreputable, fraudulent, pretentious, tawdry
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It is, however, extremely amusing and clever--though here I must add that I use the word "clever" at least partially in its English sense, that is to say meretriciously and ostentatiously intelligent rather than deeply so; it is more a search for applause than truth.
Hypocrite lecteur by Daniels, Anthony / New Criterion
Hilary himself (Trinity 4:25, 8:1) demanded that bishops be eloquent, not meretriciously but to assist audiences' understanding.
Saint Hilary of Poitiers by Baldwin, Barry / Catholic Insight
Insidiously, meretriciously, he maneuvers to attain his vision of power within his own profession as a special healer of the bodies and the minds of combatants who have somehow survived military carnages only to be continuously haunted by "the images of war.
Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway: "a well of tears" by Panichas, George A. / Modern Age
 
 
 
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