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meretricious

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Now that Laura has been revealed to be little more than a collection of notes, the debate seems silly, meretricious.

Then the mask is taken off, meretricious ornaments are dispensed with, and consequently native qualities appear.

But to-night her now hateful, meretricious image rose, with horrid vividness, before him.

As in everything that Seguin has painted, there was undoubtedly a certain meretricious beauty and force about it.

A pintura de la Feria became a term in Spain for a meretricious picture.

The people are already beginning to distinguish between the wholesome and the meretricious in their newspapers.

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On this page you'll find 50 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to meretricious, such as: blatant, bogus, brazen, chintzy, counterfeit, and garish.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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