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meretricious a. 華麗而庸俗的,俗氣的,娼妓的 華麗而庸俗的,俗氣的,娼妓的 meretricious adj 1: like or relating to a prostitute; " meretricious relationships" 2: tastelessly showy; " a flash car"; " a flashy ring"; " garish colors"; " a gaudy costume"; " loud sport shirts"; " a meretricious yet stylish book"; " tawdry ornaments" [ synonym: { brassy}, { cheap}, { flash}, { flashy}, { garish}, { gaudy}, { gimcrack}, { loud}, { meretricious}, { tacky}, { tatty}, { tawdry}, { trashy}] 3: based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; " the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; " meretricious praise"; " a meretricious argument" [ synonym: { gilded}, { meretricious}, { specious}] Meretricious \ Mer` e* tri" cious\, a. [ L. meretricius, from meretrix, - icis, a prostitute, lit., one who earns money, i. e., by prostitution, fr. merere to earn, gain. See { Merit}.] 1. Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry; as, meretricious dress or ornaments. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Deceptive or based on deception; seeming plausible, but based on pretense or insincerity; deceptive; misleading; insincere; specious; as, meretricious arguments. [ PJC] -- { Mer` e* tri" cious* ly}, adv. -- { Mer` e* tri" cious* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 137 Moby Thesaurus words for " meretricious": Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, apparent, bedizened, beggarly, beneath contempt, big- sounding, blatant, brazen, brazenfaced, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, coarse, colorable, colored, colorful, common, contemptible, convoluted, crass, crude, crummy, deceptive, declamatory, delusive, delusory, despicable, earthy, elevated, euphuistic, extravagant, fallen, flagrant, flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flashy, flaunting, fulsome, garish, gaudy, gilded, gimcracky, glaring, gorgeous, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, gross, harlot, high- flowing, high- flown, high- flying, high- sounding, highfalutin, hustling, inkhorn, insincere, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, loud, lurid, magniloquent, mean, miserable, misleading, obscene, obtrusive, on the, on the town, orotund, ostensible, ostentatious, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, paltry, pathetic, pave, pedantic, pitiable, pitiful, plausible, pompous, poor, pretentious, prostitute, prostituted, raw, rhetorical, ribald, rough, rubbishy, rude, sad, scarlet, screaming, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, seeming, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, shabby, shameless, shoddy, showy, sonorous, sorry, specious, spectacular, spurious, stilted, streetwalking, tall, tawdry, tinsel, tortuous, trashy, trumpery, two- for- a- cent, two- for- a- penny, twopenny, twopenny- halfpenny, valueless, vile, vulgar, whorish, worthless, wretched
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