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Definition of meretriciousness in English Turkish dictionary
- meretricious
- sahte güzel
- meretricious
- cafcaflı
- meretricious
- gösterişli
- meretricious
- kaba süslü
- meretricious
- sahte gösterişli
- meretricious
- {s} süslü püslü
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Definition of meretriciousness in English English dictionary
- The property of being meretricious
- flashiness: tasteless showiness
- speciousness: an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility; "the speciousness of his argument"
- {i} wantonness, lewdness; cheapness, loudness; deception; gaudiness
- meretricious
- Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having no substance; falsely alluring
When I lifted my eyes from the page, there was none of the meretricious argument London always offers that the sole real purpose in life is to hustle for a buck.
- meretricious
- alluring by false or gaudy show
- meretricious
- Looking like a whore or prostitute
- meretricious
- {a} lewd, gaudy, false
- meretricious
- Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry; as, meretricious dress or ornaments
- meretricious
- tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
- meretricious
- tastelessly gaudy, making a false show of being attractive
- meretricious
- Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic
- meretricious
- like or relating to a prostitute; "meretricious relationships
- meretricious
- like or relating to a prostitute; "meretricious relationships"
- meretricious
- Of, or relating to prostitutes or prostitution
- meretricious
- {s} alluring in a vulgar or gaudy way; wanton, lewd; cheap, loud; of or pertaining to a prostitute; deceptive, based on a falsehood
- meretricious
- based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"
- meretricious
- disapproval If you describe something as meretricious, you disapprove of it because although it looks attractive it is actually of little value. vulgar, meretricious and shabby souvenirs. something that is meretricious seems attractive but has no real value or is not based on the truth (meretricius, from meretrix , from merere; MERIT)
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