MERETRICIOUS in a Sentence
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Example sentences for MERETRICIOUS, such as:
1. The net result is that both the news columns and the editorial columns are commonly meretricious in a high degree.
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Meanings and Examples of MERETRICIOUS
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meretricious
a. based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
a. tastelessly showy
Classic Sentence:
1 He was a son of God--a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that--and he must be about His Father's Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty.
2 If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though possibly a meretricious, effect.
Example Sentence:
1 The net result is that both the news columns and the editorial columns are commonly meretricious in a high degree.