Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word MERETRICIOUS
MERETRICIOUS
Definitions of MERETRICIOUS
- Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having in reality no value or substance; falsely alluring.
- (legal) Involving unlawful sexual connection or lack of consent by at least one party (said of a romantic relationship).
- (obsolete) Of, or relating to prostitutes or prostitution.
Number of letters
12
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using MERETRICIOUS in a Sentence
- Of excellent repute as a craftsman and an artist in wood, Johnson's original conceptions and his adaptations of other's ideas were remarkable for their extreme flamboyance, and for the merciless manner in which he overloaded them with thin and meretricious ornament.
- Milne described the film as "appallingly meretricious schlock which looks as if it has been slung together using discarded out-takes from a dozen different potboilers" and that the film has "no visible means of support from either plot or characterization, the action simply staggers from one lurid climax to next".
- He adopts a subdued tone from a sense of decorative fitness, his aim being to ensure the flat effect and the subordination proper to mural backgrounds, as distinct from the meretricious illusion of prominent relief and receding distances, which disqualifies the average easel- picture from a place in any broad architectonic scheme.
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