Associations to the word «Meretricious»
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Wiktionary
MERETRICIOUS, adjective. (obsolete) Of, or relating to prostitutes or prostitution.
MERETRICIOUS, adjective. (legal) Involving unlawful sexual connection or lack of consent by at least one party (said of a romantic relationship)
MERETRICIOUS, adjective. Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having in reality no value or substance; falsely alluring.
Dictionary definition
MERETRICIOUS, adjective. Like or relating to a prostitute; "meretricious relationships".
MERETRICIOUS, adjective. Tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments".
MERETRICIOUS, adjective. Based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument".
Wise words
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at
least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are
nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to
build something with them; they do not win their true
meaning until one knows how to apply them.