Definition of meretricious in English:

meretricious

adjective ˌmɛrɪˈtrɪʃəsˌmɛrəˈtrɪʃəs

1Apparently attractive but having no real value.
假美的；俗艳的；虚假的
meretricious souvenirs for the tourist trade
没有真正价值的俗丽旅游纪念品。
Example sentencesExamples
- Most elections, like this one, are full of languor and anxious imitation, where any semblance of vision is replaced by meretricious showboating, of the kind for which Jospin had no talent.
- Hathaway is suitably perky for her role, but there's no real humor here, the political edge is simply meretricious, and even the special effects stink.
- This movie is quite a box of tricks, and director Alan Parker has turned the handle at the side and cranked out two hours' worth of flashy, meretricious and deeply silly nonsense.
- This dopey, loopy novel not only fails as literature but can't even deliver the cheap, meretricious thrills that make so many popular novels popular.
- But anniversaries do provide an excuse to look beyond the meretricious present and pepper the pages of our pallid and alliteration-strewn papers with remembrances of times past.
- But that's meretricious, in every sense of the term.
- As the Telegraph explains, critics universally enjoy rubbishing his work - just poster art, says the Guardian, meretricious rubbish, says the Times.
- They were attacked as meretricious and manipulative, but what is film-making anyway but that?
- ‘A mendacious, monkey-brained leader with a meretricious, money-grabbing wife’, he says, just to give you a little more context.
- Not the old, proud, quietly beautiful gold that was cherished to them, but the meretricious, cheap, glaring bright gold that seemed to try too hard at being beautiful.
- But if millions of people can choose the meretricious rather than the meritorious in so simple a thing as coffee and cafés, is it sensible to give them the vote when much more complex issues are at stake?
- Now some meretricious construct called Big Brother - without value, meaning or even entertainment-value - seems to captivate the luckless viewer.
- We are so accustomed to meretricious cultural studies that when the real thing comes along, generous and suggestive, we may fail to see how many windows and veins it opens.
- Too often, it seemed to me, he was determined to discover in a literary work what was phony or meretricious rather than what was admirable.
- Stars no longer have the guts to protest such meretricious displays of ego and decadence with their absence, or to inappropriately hijack award shows for their own political purposes.
- By the time I exited grad school, the feeling of an era being over - however meretricious in some of its particulars the era might have been - was unmistakable.
- ‘Glossy, meretricious crap,’ is his damning verdict.
- In stark contrast to the Dome, which symbolises all that is trashy and meretricious in contemporary Britain, the Great Exhibition was the wonder of its age, a living expression of the country's growing majesty.
- There's something cheap about this sort of fake wisdom, something tawdry, meretricious, something… what's the word I'm looking for?
- If it is seduced consent, created by the meretricious fabrications of spin doctors, then democracy itself is at risk of degenerating.
Synonyms
flashy, pretentious, gaudy, tawdry, trashy, garish, chintzy, Brummagem, loud, tinselly, cheap, tasteless, kitschy
false, artificial, fake, faked, fraudulent, imitation, bogus, spurious, sham, specious, plastic
informal tacky
2archaic Relating to or characteristic of a prostitute.
〈古〉（与）娼妓（有关）的；娼妓特有的

Derivatives

meretriciously

adverb

They were very cheap of course and attractively presented - they looked neither meretriciously glossy nor ponderously dull.
Example sentencesExamples
- And how can our heroine, now so chaste and docile, have only two hours ago been writhing meretriciously across the screen in song?
- It meretriciously urges all parties to exercise restraint, as it, itself, exercises restraint in the field of morality.
- Somehow Fish continues to be given platforms to argue (meretriciously, I believe) for one thing or another.
- His pictures are neither symbolic nor meretriciously anecdotal, but his colour and the rhythms and forms he paints are highly suggestive.

meretriciousness

noun

In the take-over of Labour by meretriciousness, its nonconformist traditions, rooted in the world of work, in mutual aid and self-improvement have largely gone.
Example sentencesExamples
- But then to place it on a disc and ask people to pay money for it just bursts the bounds of meretriciousness.
- Slim people can put on weight again, but meretriciousness cannot be rooted out.
- For this, surely, is an age of celebrity, of style over substance, meretriciousness over content, mediocrity over intellectualism.
- Its walls were festooned with the products of meretriciousness, pseudo-intellectuality and fraud.

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin meretricius (adjective from meretrix, meretric- 'prostitute', from mereri 'be hired') + -ous.

Rhymes

adventitious, Aloysius, ambitious, auspicious, avaricious, capricious, conspicuous, delicious, expeditious, factitious, fictitious, flagitious, judicious, lubricious, malicious, Mauritius, nutritious, officious, pernicious, propitious, repetitious, seditious, siliceous, superstitious, suppositious, surreptitious, suspicious, vicious

Definition of meretricious in US English:

meretricious

adjectiveˌmerəˈtriSHəsˌmɛrəˈtrɪʃəs

1Apparently attractive but having in reality no value or integrity.
假美的；俗艳的；虚假的
meretricious souvenirs for the tourist trade
没有真正价值的俗丽旅游纪念品。
Example sentencesExamples
- Too often, it seemed to me, he was determined to discover in a literary work what was phony or meretricious rather than what was admirable.
- By the time I exited grad school, the feeling of an era being over - however meretricious in some of its particulars the era might have been - was unmistakable.
- ‘A mendacious, monkey-brained leader with a meretricious, money-grabbing wife’, he says, just to give you a little more context.
- If it is seduced consent, created by the meretricious fabrications of spin doctors, then democracy itself is at risk of degenerating.
- But that's meretricious, in every sense of the term.
- As the Telegraph explains, critics universally enjoy rubbishing his work - just poster art, says the Guardian, meretricious rubbish, says the Times.
- They were attacked as meretricious and manipulative, but what is film-making anyway but that?
- Stars no longer have the guts to protest such meretricious displays of ego and decadence with their absence, or to inappropriately hijack award shows for their own political purposes.
- Most elections, like this one, are full of languor and anxious imitation, where any semblance of vision is replaced by meretricious showboating, of the kind for which Jospin had no talent.
- But anniversaries do provide an excuse to look beyond the meretricious present and pepper the pages of our pallid and alliteration-strewn papers with remembrances of times past.
- There's something cheap about this sort of fake wisdom, something tawdry, meretricious, something… what's the word I'm looking for?
- ‘Glossy, meretricious crap,’ is his damning verdict.
- Now some meretricious construct called Big Brother - without value, meaning or even entertainment-value - seems to captivate the luckless viewer.
- Hathaway is suitably perky for her role, but there's no real humor here, the political edge is simply meretricious, and even the special effects stink.
- Not the old, proud, quietly beautiful gold that was cherished to them, but the meretricious, cheap, glaring bright gold that seemed to try too hard at being beautiful.
- We are so accustomed to meretricious cultural studies that when the real thing comes along, generous and suggestive, we may fail to see how many windows and veins it opens.
- In stark contrast to the Dome, which symbolises all that is trashy and meretricious in contemporary Britain, the Great Exhibition was the wonder of its age, a living expression of the country's growing majesty.
- This movie is quite a box of tricks, and director Alan Parker has turned the handle at the side and cranked out two hours' worth of flashy, meretricious and deeply silly nonsense.
- This dopey, loopy novel not only fails as literature but can't even deliver the cheap, meretricious thrills that make so many popular novels popular.
- But if millions of people can choose the meretricious rather than the meritorious in so simple a thing as coffee and cafés, is it sensible to give them the vote when much more complex issues are at stake?
Synonyms
flashy, pretentious, gaudy, tawdry, trashy, garish, chintzy, brummagem, loud, tinselly, cheap, tasteless, kitschy
2archaic Relating to or characteristic of a prostitute.
〈古〉（与）娼妓（有关）的；娼妓特有的

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin meretricius (adjective from meretrix, meretric- ‘prostitute’, from mereri ‘be hired’) + -ous.

单词	meretricious
释义	Definition of meretricious in English: meretricious adjective ˌmɛrɪˈtrɪʃəsˌmɛrəˈtrɪʃəs 1Apparently attractive but having no real value. 假美的；俗艳的；虚假的 meretricious souvenirs for the tourist trade 没有真正价值的俗丽旅游纪念品。 Example sentencesExamples Most elections, like this one, are full of languor and anxious imitation, where any semblance of vision is replaced by meretricious showboating, of the kind for which Jospin had no talent. Hathaway is suitably perky for her role, but there's no real humor here, the political edge is simply meretricious, and even the special effects stink. This movie is quite a box of tricks, and director Alan Parker has turned the handle at the side and cranked out two hours' worth of flashy, meretricious and deeply silly nonsense. This dopey, loopy novel not only fails as literature but can't even deliver the cheap, meretricious thrills that make so many popular novels popular. But anniversaries do provide an excuse to look beyond the meretricious present and pepper the pages of our pallid and alliteration-strewn papers with remembrances of times past. But that's meretricious, in every sense of the term. As the Telegraph explains, critics universally enjoy rubbishing his work - just poster art, says the Guardian, meretricious rubbish, says the Times. They were attacked as meretricious and manipulative, but what is film-making anyway but that? ‘A mendacious, monkey-brained leader with a meretricious, money-grabbing wife’, he says, just to give you a little more context. Not the old, proud, quietly beautiful gold that was cherished to them, but the meretricious, cheap, glaring bright gold that seemed to try too hard at being beautiful. But if millions of people can choose the meretricious rather than the meritorious in so simple a thing as coffee and cafés, is it sensible to give them the vote when much more complex issues are at stake? Now some meretricious construct called Big Brother - without value, meaning or even entertainment-value - seems to captivate the luckless viewer. We are so accustomed to meretricious cultural studies that when the real thing comes along, generous and suggestive, we may fail to see how many windows and veins it opens. Too often, it seemed to me, he was determined to discover in a literary work what was phony or meretricious rather than what was admirable. Stars no longer have the guts to protest such meretricious displays of ego and decadence with their absence, or to inappropriately hijack award shows for their own political purposes. By the time I exited grad school, the feeling of an era being over - however meretricious in some of its particulars the era might have been - was unmistakable. ‘Glossy, meretricious crap,’ is his damning verdict. In stark contrast to the Dome, which symbolises all that is trashy and meretricious in contemporary Britain, the Great Exhibition was the wonder of its age, a living expression of the country's growing majesty. There's something cheap about this sort of fake wisdom, something tawdry, meretricious, something… what's the word I'm looking for? If it is seduced consent, created by the meretricious fabrications of spin doctors, then democracy itself is at risk of degenerating. Synonyms flashy, pretentious, gaudy, tawdry, trashy, garish, chintzy, Brummagem, loud, tinselly, cheap, tasteless, kitschy false, artificial, fake, faked, fraudulent, imitation, bogus, spurious, sham, specious, plastic informal tacky 2archaic Relating to or characteristic of a prostitute. 〈古〉（与）娼妓（有关）的；娼妓特有的 Derivatives meretriciously adverb They were very cheap of course and attractively presented - they looked neither meretriciously glossy nor ponderously dull. Example sentencesExamples And how can our heroine, now so chaste and docile, have only two hours ago been writhing meretriciously across the screen in song? It meretriciously urges all parties to exercise restraint, as it, itself, exercises restraint in the field of morality. Somehow Fish continues to be given platforms to argue (meretriciously, I believe) for one thing or another. His pictures are neither symbolic nor meretriciously anecdotal, but his colour and the rhythms and forms he paints are highly suggestive. meretriciousness noun In the take-over of Labour by meretriciousness, its nonconformist traditions, rooted in the world of work, in mutual aid and self-improvement have largely gone. Example sentencesExamples But then to place it on a disc and ask people to pay money for it just bursts the bounds of meretriciousness. Slim people can put on weight again, but meretriciousness cannot be rooted out. For this, surely, is an age of celebrity, of style over substance, meretriciousness over content, mediocrity over intellectualism. Its walls were festooned with the products of meretriciousness, pseudo-intellectuality and fraud. Origin Early 17th century: from Latin meretricius (adjective from meretrix, meretric- 'prostitute', from mereri 'be hired') + -ous. Rhymes adventitious, Aloysius, ambitious, auspicious, avaricious, capricious, conspicuous, delicious, expeditious, factitious, fictitious, flagitious, judicious, lubricious, malicious, Mauritius, nutritious, officious, pernicious, propitious, repetitious, seditious, siliceous, superstitious, suppositious, surreptitious, suspicious, vicious Definition of meretricious in US English: meretricious adjectiveˌmerəˈtriSHəsˌmɛrəˈtrɪʃəs 1Apparently attractive but having in reality no value or integrity. 假美的；俗艳的；虚假的 meretricious souvenirs for the tourist trade 没有真正价值的俗丽旅游纪念品。 Example sentencesExamples Too often, it seemed to me, he was determined to discover in a literary work what was phony or meretricious rather than what was admirable. By the time I exited grad school, the feeling of an era being over - however meretricious in some of its particulars the era might have been - was unmistakable. ‘A mendacious, monkey-brained leader with a meretricious, money-grabbing wife’, he says, just to give you a little more context. If it is seduced consent, created by the meretricious fabrications of spin doctors, then democracy itself is at risk of degenerating. But that's meretricious, in every sense of the term. As the Telegraph explains, critics universally enjoy rubbishing his work - just poster art, says the Guardian, meretricious rubbish, says the Times. They were attacked as meretricious and manipulative, but what is film-making anyway but that? Stars no longer have the guts to protest such meretricious displays of ego and decadence with their absence, or to inappropriately hijack award shows for their own political purposes. Most elections, like this one, are full of languor and anxious imitation, where any semblance of vision is replaced by meretricious showboating, of the kind for which Jospin had no talent. But anniversaries do provide an excuse to look beyond the meretricious present and pepper the pages of our pallid and alliteration-strewn papers with remembrances of times past. There's something cheap about this sort of fake wisdom, something tawdry, meretricious, something… what's the word I'm looking for? ‘Glossy, meretricious crap,’ is his damning verdict. Now some meretricious construct called Big Brother - without value, meaning or even entertainment-value - seems to captivate the luckless viewer. Hathaway is suitably perky for her role, but there's no real humor here, the political edge is simply meretricious, and even the special effects stink. Not the old, proud, quietly beautiful gold that was cherished to them, but the meretricious, cheap, glaring bright gold that seemed to try too hard at being beautiful. We are so accustomed to meretricious cultural studies that when the real thing comes along, generous and suggestive, we may fail to see how many windows and veins it opens. In stark contrast to the Dome, which symbolises all that is trashy and meretricious in contemporary Britain, the Great Exhibition was the wonder of its age, a living expression of the country's growing majesty. This movie is quite a box of tricks, and director Alan Parker has turned the handle at the side and cranked out two hours' worth of flashy, meretricious and deeply silly nonsense. This dopey, loopy novel not only fails as literature but can't even deliver the cheap, meretricious thrills that make so many popular novels popular. But if millions of people can choose the meretricious rather than the meritorious in so simple a thing as coffee and cafés, is it sensible to give them the vote when much more complex issues are at stake? Synonyms flashy, pretentious, gaudy, tawdry, trashy, garish, chintzy, brummagem, loud, tinselly, cheap, tasteless, kitschy 2archaic Relating to or characteristic of a prostitute. 〈古〉（与）娼妓（有关）的；娼妓特有的 Origin Early 17th century: from Latin meretricius (adjective from meretrix, meretric- ‘prostitute’, from mereri ‘be hired’) + -ous.
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