meretricious

How To Use meretricious In A Sentence

• meretricious relationships
• For this was the unfortunate moment which he chose to launch another of his impassioned diatribes at the worldliness, the luxury, the intrigues, the meretricious bedizenment of wealthy and high-born women. Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
• Now some meretricious construct called Big Brother - without value, meaning or even entertainment-value - seems to captivate the luckless viewer.
• 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?
• 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.
• Richard Polwhele's "Unsexed Females," where he asks us to picture an "unsex'd" woman's body: "Scarce by a gossamery film carest,/Sport [s], in full view, the meretricious breast;" he then guides us to undress the woman farther, to "Loose the chaste cincture, where the graces shone,/And languish'd all the Loves, the ambrosial zone. 'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_
• There's something cheap about this sort of fake wisdom, something tawdry, meretricious, something… what's the word I'm looking for?
• a meretricious yet stylish book
• He claims that a lot of journalism is meretricious and superficial.
• 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.