| However meretricious this culture of warnings might be, there have been times when real, honest to god, in your face warnings made sense. |
| We are so accustomed to meretricious cultural studies that when the real thing comes along, generous and suggestive, we may fail to see how many windows and veins it opens. |
| Not the old, proud, quietly beautiful gold that was cherished to them, but the meretricious, cheap, glaring bright gold that seemed to try too hard at being beautiful. |
| Washington Post hatchet man Michael Kelly joined in this macarena of meretricious mendacity. |
| Instead, it's a tedious and meretricious bore, and those are the worst kind. |
| Two years later a meretricious curate pulled them down from the shelf and bought them. |
