(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.
Trashy
Definition:
(superl.) Like trash; containing much trash; waste; rejected; worthless; useless; as, a trashy novel.
Example Sentences:
(1) But I think this isn’t a problem only kids face – we’ve become a country of trashy readers.
(2) Prince's art appears to celebrate trashiness and low-rent style.
(3) His group of bourgeois friends, aged over 60, (some of whom are inspired by real writers, intellectuals and artists), resist by attending trashy parties; it's a generation incapable of growing up.
(4) Could Fifty Shades of Grey, with a smart female director at the helm, usher in a new era of movies for lusty, grown-up women, even if its trashy reputation and wayward use of cable ties might not seem to be the fertile ground from which this might spring?
(5) Contributors are awarded badges – "LOL", "Trashy", "Fail" – if their article inspires a certain number of responses.
(6) The letter to Carusone hints at Trump's litigious past, urging him to "look no further than former Miss Pennsylvania Sheena Monnin, who just last week found herself on the wrong side of a $5m judgment in favour of Mr Trump after falsely stating in the press that the Trump-owned Miss USA pageant was both "fixed" and "trashy".
(7) She has continued to work since then, though, but mostly small parts in TV shows and trashy horror films.
(8) That they are crass, brash and trashy goes without saying.
(9) There's something of the old-fashioned showman about Hytner: highbrow and lowbrow isn't a distinction he values (he claims to enjoy Diana Krall as much as Haydn, and admits a secret affection for trashy pop).
(10) He made every trashy costume seem as natural as a good suit and, for all his life, he seemed carried forward by the odd mixture of yearning and fatalism that prompted Humbert Humbert.
(11) Along that way, so much of her early trashiness was forgiven by the public so that at her death, at last – for hospital was one of her long-running roles or duties – there is much grief and sorrow for her.
(12) Considering illustrations to be trashy, he set a simple thee-part grid, with colour coded bands – orange for fiction, green for crime, blue for biographies and pink for travel and adventure – while text was set in crisp Gill Sans and strictly marshalled into the centre.
(13) Laurie Penny's wonderful, spirited defence of the novel certainly found aspects to like "because there were, amongst some terrifically trashy bits of girly romance and some eye-watering blow-job scenarios, a few quite good, quite detailed descriptions of fucking written from the point of view of a woman who seemed to be really enjoying herself".
(14) I can give anyone a hard time.” She once lectured Kentucky senator and 2016 candidate Rand Paul over his penchant for arguing with female reporters, and memorably asked another White House hopeful, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, to clarify why he thought it was trashy for women to swear in public.
(15) This seems a pretty improbable form of entertainment for the most controversial woman in the history of rock, but she claims to be a big fan of trashy British TV, particularly if it involves Katie Price, with whom Love seems slightly obsessed: she keeps sending Price Tweets; alas, to no response.
(16) I think a lot of people have assumed that the SF was the trashy but high-selling stuff I had to churn out in order to keep a roof over my head while I wrote the important, serious, non-genre literary novels.
(17) Taken as a whole, the work of Noble and Webster reveals a fascination for trashy sex and sentimentalised love, often mediated through fly-by-night pop culture, and an equal obsession with cycles of decay and decomposition.
(18) The after-hours counterpart to G-A-Y (G-A-Y Late) has quickly replaced the Joiners Arms as London’s trashy gay bar of choice, where everyone is invited.
(19) It ranges from the tragic (Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar ) to the quasi-trashy (Rona Jaffe's The Best of Everything ) to the comic (Ruth McKenney's delightful but, sadly, half-forgotten My Sister Eileen ) to the bohemian (Mary McCarthy's The Company She Keeps ).
(20) "The biggest misconception people have is that quality is all that matters," Peretti says, in an admission likely to give further ammunition to those who think the site is trashy and downmarket.