Pervasive and pernicious deviations from both fact and logical validity lurked behind a meretricious plausibility.
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Meretricious
//ˌmɛɹɪˈtɹɪʃəs//
Synonyms for "meretricious" (181 found)
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2 entriesTranslations
34 translations across 15 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- безвкусен adj (tastelessly gaudy)
- показен adj (tastelessly gaudy)
Catalan
1 entries- meretrici adj (of, or relating to prostitutes)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 艳俗的 adj (tastelessly gaudy)
Dutch
4 entries- hoerachtig adj (of, or relating to prostitutes)
- opzichtig adj (of, or relating to prostitutes)
- schoonschijnend adj (tastelessly gaudy)
- wansmakelijk adj (tastelessly gaudy)
Finnish
2 entries- koreileva adj (tastelessly gaudy)
- pramea adj (tastelessly gaudy)
French
4 entries- de mauvais goût adj (tastelessly gaudy)
- putassier adj (of, or relating to prostitutes)
- racoleur adj (of, or relating to prostitutes)
- spécieux adj (tastelessly gaudy)
German
4 entries- dirnenhaft adj (of, or relating to prostitutes)
- großkotzig adj (tastelessly gaudy)
- großspurig adj (tastelessly gaudy)
- ordinär adj (tastelessly gaudy)
Hungarian
4 entries- csicsás adj (tastelessly gaudy)
- felszínes adj (tastelessly gaudy)
- hivalkodó adj (tastelessly gaudy)
- talmi adj (tastelessly gaudy)
Japanese
1 entries- けばけばしい adj (tastelessly gaudy)
Korean
1 entries- 저속한 adj (tastelessly gaudy)
Latin
1 entries- meretrīcius adj (of, or relating to prostitutes)
Manx
1 entries- streebeeagh adj (of, or relating to prostitutes)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- kurvinski adj (of, or relating to prostitutes)
Spanish
1 entries- meretricio adj (of, or relating to prostitutes)
Ukrainian
4 entries- дешевий adj (tastelessly gaudy)
- позбавлений смаку adj (tastelessly gaudy)
- показний adj (tastelessly gaudy)
- розпусний adj (of, or relating to prostitutes)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
I discovered even, by his conversation, when intoxicated that his favourites were wantons of the lowest class, who could by their vulgar, indecent mirth, which he called nature, rouse his sluggish spirits. Meretricious ornaments and manners were necessary to attract his attention.
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It might be reasonably objected elsewhere, that some of the tombs are meretricious and too fanciful; but the general brightness seems to justify it here; and Mount Vesuvius, separated from them by a lovely slope of ground, exalts and saddens the scene.
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Gloriani’s statues were florid and meretricious; they looked like magnified goldsmith’s work.
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