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How to use meretricious in a sentence

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They were attacked as meretricious and manipulative, but what is film-making anyway but that?
Two years later a meretricious curate pulled them down from the shelf and bought them.
Washington Post hatchet man Michael Kelly joined in this macarena of meretricious mendacity.
If it is seduced consent, created by the meretricious fabrications of spin doctors, then democracy itself is at risk of degenerating.
Instead, it's a tedious and meretricious bore, and those are the worst kind.
Too often, it seemed to me, he was determined to discover in a literary work what was phony or meretricious rather than what was admirable.
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.
He believed in beauty, recognised it in women and, amid the meretricious, created his share of it.
However meretricious this culture of warnings might be, there have been times when real, honest to god, in your face warnings made sense.
The society in which we live today is a meretricious society at all levels.
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.
This dopey, loopy novel not only fails as literature but can't even deliver the cheap, meretricious thrills that make so many popular novels popular.
To simplify matters, he took some photographs with him of Lee's gold-encrusted fist so he could be sure of getting something equally tawdry, ostentatious and meretricious.
Now that Laura has been revealed to be little more than a collection of notes, the debate seems silly, meretricious.
Or join forces with the wider public in a bid to distinguish the meretricious showboaters from the artists of real merit?
We must exclude from art not only meretricious works, but also those inspired by a desire for goodness, as equally, though differently, inartistic and repugnant to lovers of poetry.
Elected mayors are just a meretricious addition.
Especially in the final movement, in which he indulged in a sort of boogie-woogie routine, his approach was fundamentally meretricious.
It is only consistent with his distinctive grandiloquent, effusive, cavalier, self-infatuated, hornswoggling, meretricious dilettante scope and outlandishness.
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She was half-angry with him in the carriage, and said something about meretricious manners.
She fought against it from an instinctive feeling that it was meretricious.
The meretricious melodrama did not fool them, but they delighted in its absurdities.
No roughness disfigures, no sensualism blights, no straining for effect chills, no meretricious ornament destroys them.
There is nothing showy or clever, nothing cheap or meretricious in all their work.
I respect and applaud your indifference to fine poetry when you can contemplate the meretricious charms of this young person.
The whole mechanical outlook upon life, as she had known it, seemed, even in those few seconds, to become a false and meretricious thing.
There is not a meretricious or humiliating book in the whole collection.
This murky and meretricious beloved, who comes from a frumpy family, soon finds other ne'er-do-wells of more interest than her huddled husband.
Unlike his neighbor, Grieg, he is never mincing and meretricious.
It is so beautiful that I'm dreadfully afraid it is meretricious.
But then it looked insincere, meretricious, affected, and always haggard.
That meretricious splendour was the only one to be met in Mrs Verloc's visions.
Yet it was Raffles who was the life and soul of the party, and that not by meretricious virtue of his cricket.
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