(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.
Tatty
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Some of it has become a bit tatty over the years, but that's all part of the eccentricity and charm of the place.
(2) I'd like to say I tasted them first on some misty Irish moorland, or was fed them by grizzled crofters in the Scottish highlands (where they are known as tattie scones).
(3) Adopted as a political prisoner by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, he received thousands of cards and letters of support – a tiny sample jammed into a tatty brown envelope bearing the address of Russia's federal prisons service.
(4) He turned out instead in the same tatty old jackets and pale yellow shirts without a tie that he had had in his wardrobe for decades.
(5) Carlisle's fiancé, Trevor Harris, pulls out a tatty fiver from his pocket to draw his own comparisons.
(6) Burns is, according to the poet Edwin Muir, "to the respectable, a decent man; to the Rabelaisian, bawdy; to the sentimentalist, sentimental; to the socialist, a revolutionary; to the nationalist, a patriot; to the religious, pious …" So no doubt, this January at the start of referendum year , even diehard unionists will be searching around for words of his that seem to support their position and, where they can extrapolate them, sprinkling them around with abandon to salt their haggis, neeps and tatties at Burns suppers the length and breadth of the land.
(7) "Cataclysmic money" was spent razing extant if tatty inner city zones, with their diverse uses, their self-generated social and economic energy vibrating on crowded sidewalks.
(8) It is 10am and the tatty apartment blocks of southern Moscow are still shrouded in winter darkness as a slender young woman hurries towards the metro.
(9) The 12 panel members, all undecided voters, flagged up a wide range of issues, from affordable housing to cycling safety, from the tattiness of some parts of Taunton to the lack of a decent music venue that might tempt big bands further west than Bristol.
(10) Discussions at the central bank over whether to replace the tatty paper fiver with a tougher polymer version started in 2010.
(11) Travel talismans in the shape of little monsters are a collaboration with jewellers Tatty Devine.
(12) the more tatty the present licence-fee system looks.
(13) Nothing beats a whisky hangover like the uber-Scottish Tattie Stack – a pile of double potato scone and smoked bacon topped with Stornoway black pudding and a fried egg.
(14) You can see what Man City has done for the programme and the staff and the participants,” said Kelly, who had gone from taking sessions for six kids on tatty, ripped astroturf eight years ago to having use of City’s money-no-object Etihad Campus.
(15) Rosie Wolfenden, co-founder and managing director of jewellery brand Tatty Devine Rosie Wolfenden started the East London-based business alongside Harriet Vine in 1999.
(16) "My leg was fractured by a bullet," he said, lifting a tatty sheet to reveal a thick white plaster cast.
(17) In the tatty corridors of the school, Abdullah's bodyguard was showing off his hand to journalists – just half an hour earlier his right index finger had been dipped in supposedly indelible ink after he cast his vote.
(18) That it took two years for the first Observer Magazine to appear says much about the debate that went on in the paper's cramped and tatty offices in Tudor Street, just off Fleet Street.
(19) A recent front-page report in the Sun pictured tatty furniture and dodgy light fittings.
(20) But sometimes they are small, dark, have no cupboards, tatty sheets, and an unpleasant shared bathroom.