(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.
Meritorious
Definition:
(a.) Possessing merit; deserving of reward or honor; worthy of recompense; valuable.
Example Sentences:
(1) It said it still planned to close its compensation scheme, but would continue to consider "meritorious claims".
(2) Physical fitness tests will be overhauled, including new standards and surprise “spotchecks”, and the navy and marine corps will transition to a “meritorious” system of promotions, Mabus said.
(3) Improved communication between physicians and patients may result in fewer nonmeritorious malpractice claims while leading to less costly resolution of meritorious claims.
(4) One of the capital payment options under consideration is the establishment of a lid on capital expenditures and the concomitant allocation of capital to health care providers whose applications are the most meritorious.
(5) The overall achievement by scientists and clinicians in Korea has been meritorious in elucidating some of the pending problems in the areas of pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment.
(6) The citation was read to the congregation, praising his “exceptionally meritorious service and his extraordinary integrity and leadership throughout his 11 years as an officer”.
(7) Yet if the post-feminist age is clearly not quite as meritorious as anticipated a brighter, more equal, future beckons.
(8) This program provides funds for rapid testing of investigator-initiated meritorious research ideas, new drugs, and treatment modalities.
(9) Whilst Glencore cannot predict the results of any litigation, it believes it has meritorious defences against those actions or claims.
(10) You must know that there is a direct application on the battlefield and we’re using it today, but we don’t really understand it yet so this is a critical element.” His awards include the Legion of Merit, the Distinguished Service Medal, a Meritorious Service Award and an Army Commendation Medal.
(11) On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the organized health care of the city of Subotica, the authors present the development as well as the present functions of the establishment for the care of little children, which exists for 100 years already and is undoubtedly meritorious for the people of this region, justifying it's existence since the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
(12) The glutaraldehyde-vaccine is of good potency with a meritorious performance in tests for abnormal toxicity in mice, the leucocytosis-promoting-factor and the mouse weight gain.
(13) The purpose of the panels is to weed out frivolous lawsuits and aid the prompt settlement of meritorious claims.
(14) The listing prospectus does reveal a Belgian criminal investigation in which Glencore's Dutch-based grain trading operation, a former employee and one current employee have all been charged with bribing European officials, but the company does not detail any further legal battles as it believes it has "meritorious" defences and that any rulings will not adversely affect its finances.
(15) One of these was the Jewish physician Hermann Jastrowitz, whose meritorious achievements for the benefit of the Outpatient Division and Hospital of the Department of Medicine of the University of Halle have been practically completely documented and reconstructed from university and other records.
(16) It further concludes that it is essential to submit proposals for all prospective QA projects, potentially scientifically meritorious QA projects, and all scientific clinical research projects to an institutional review board (IRB) to render decisions about the protection of human subject's rights before accessing data.
(17) While it is widely acknowledged that the vocational potential of physically impaired persons should be evaluated in an organized manner, there are differences of opinion among professional evaluators as to which approach, or approaches, are the most meritorious; The four principal approaches are: (1) mental testing, (2) work sampling, (3) situational analysis, and (4) job tryouts.
(18) In its public filing, Twitter said "we believe we have meritorious defenses," although it also said "there can be no assurance that we will be successful" in resolving the dispute.
(19) He devoted much of his time and effort to improving medical care for the inmates, and he thus made a meritorious contribution to the treatment of mental and emotional disorders.
(20) This must mean that meritorious claims are not being pursued because of the fees regime.” The letter urges the government to carry out a review of the fee levels, and urgently.