adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a meretricious argument
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A meretricious populism and pretentious sectarianism have between them squeezed out everything else.
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A more simplistic or more meretricious film would have played those two worlds against each other.
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He surfed big conditions with disdainful ease, a slightly meretricious casualness.
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It's also curious how most of these groups have written at least one song about the meretricious lure of the capital.
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Products range from the truly estimable and inspired to the merely pretty and, sometimes, meretricious .