What's the difference between genuineness and meretricious?

Genuineness


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "The Republic genuinely wishes Northern Ireland well and that includes the 12.5% corporate tax rate," he said.
  • (2) The need here is to promote the development of genuinely participative models – citizens panels and juries, patient and community leaders, participatory budgeting, and harnessing the power of digital engagement.
  • (3) A case study of a patient with both documented genuine and hysterical pseudo-seizures demonstrates use of the model.
  • (4) "Their prioritising of pensioner spending over unemployment benefits fits with a picture seen across this generational work: they care about groups they see as being in genuine need and they put particular emphasis on helping those who have contributed."
  • (5) O rdinary hard-working people have genuine concerns about immigration, and to ignore immigration is to undemocratically ignore their needs.” Other than the resurgent importance of jam , this is the clearest message we are supposed to take out of Brexit.
  • (6) And in terms of genuine defence needs (as opposed to state militarism), what greater known threat is there to human security than the prospect of runaway climate change?
  • (7) They can genuinely believe their partner provoked them to commit the abuse, just so they could get them in trouble.
  • (8) These issues all need to be addressed before people feel like the economy is genuinely starting to recover.
  • (9) It's a genuine fear, to be terrified of being labelled a racist.
  • (10) If you're sincere and smart and genuine and lovable that's what's going to come across in your videos and tweets."
  • (11) 17 genuine tumors were found (39%): 8 germ-cell tumors, 7 cystomas respectively cystadenomas and 2 tumors of the gonadal stroma.
  • (12) A placebo effect could not definitely be ruled out, but the startling changes seen in patients who had been followed for years with other forms of therapy suggest strongly that this improvement was genuine.
  • (13) The present research focuses on indirect memory tests as a potential means of discriminating between those who genuinely suffer from amnesia and those who are simulating.
  • (14) Speed's mother said she had watched again some television footage of her son before his death and realised his smile didn't seem genuine as "it didn't extend to his eyes".
  • (15) Was Snare genuine, was the painting stolen, was he making it up?
  • (16) Much criticism, though, is based on genuine misunderstanding or a wild misrepresentation of reality – even in the pages of prestigious newspapers.
  • (17) There were no significant differences between the effects of genuine and sham acupuncture either on exercise test variables or on subjective variables.
  • (18) The training effect represents a genuine adaptation to repeated exercise but is short lived.
  • (19) Furthermore, when compared with our recent findings with mouse bone marrow cells, the effects, their magnitude and concentration dependence imply genuine species differences in the responses of mice and rats to these hormones.
  • (20) "Those shows are genuinely moving us forward as an industry, they are dragging the rest of us behind," he says.

Meretricious


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic.
  • (a.) Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry; as, meretricious dress or ornaments.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was the hangover of a meretricious general election.
  • (2) Hugh Trevor-Roper denounced it as this "meretricious, misleading work".
  • (3) To pretend otherwise is self-indulgent and meretricious.
  • (4) The campaign against next week's election of police commissioners is meretricious.
  • (5) "There is now a disproportionate amount of meretricious material aimed at appealing to public prurience, most of which revolves around the philandering of celebrities," he argues.
  • (6) Of course, even thinking in these crude competitive "scoresheet" terms is a very un-Serious thing to be doing, and the admirers of 12 Years a Slave may have a sinking feeling that it will not be properly rewarded in the tinselly, meretricious, un-Serious Oscar world.
  • (7) There is now a disproportionate amount of meretricious material aimed at appealing to public prurience, most of which revolves around the philandering of celebrities.
  • (8) Almost like the protagonist of a Victorian novel, Sharif was overtaken by his own success, to the extent that in order to service the debts incurred by gambling and a playboy lifestyle, he was thrown back on accepting any work that came his way, and entered a downward spiral into trivial and meretricious movies.
  • (9) Churchill's grandson, the Conservative MP Winston Churchill , wrote to Armstong worried that "my grandfather's wartime diary appears to have fallen into the hands of this meretricious historian, David Irving."
  • (10) Novels that sparkled in the summer sun will seem flashy and meretricious in the sober light of autumn.

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