meretricious
a . 华丽而庸俗的,俗气的,娼妓的
华丽而庸俗的,俗气的,娼妓的
meretricious adj 1 :
like or relating to a prostitute ; "
meretricious relationships "
2 :
tastelessly showy ; "
a flash car "; "
a flashy ring "; "
garish colors "; "
a gaudy costume "; "
loud sport shirts "; "
a meretricious yet stylish book "; "
tawdry ornaments " [
synonym :
{
brassy }, {
cheap }, {
flash }, {
flashy }, {
garish }, {
gaudy },
{
gimcrack }, {
loud }, {
meretricious }, {
tacky }, {
tatty },
{
tawdry }, {
trashy }]
3 :
based on pretense ;
deceptively pleasing ; "
the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility "; "
meretricious praise "; "
a meretricious argument " [
synonym : {
gilded },
{
meretricious }, {
specious }]
Meretricious \
Mer `
e *
tri "
cious \,
a . [
L .
meretricius ,
from meretrix , -
icis ,
a prostitute ,
lit .,
one who earns money ,
i .
e .,
by prostitution ,
fr .
merere to earn ,
gain .
See {
Merit }.]
1 .
Of or pertaining to prostitutes ;
having to do with harlots ;
lustful ;
as ,
meretricious traffic .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
Resembling the arts of a harlot ;
alluring by false show ;
gaudily and deceitfully ornamental ;
tawdry ;
as ,
meretricious dress or ornaments .
[
1913 Webster ]
3 .
Deceptive or based on deception ;
seeming plausible ,
but based on pretense or insincerity ;
deceptive ;
misleading ;
insincere ;
specious ;
as ,
meretricious arguments .
[
PJC ] -- {
Mer `
e *
tri "
cious *
ly },
adv . --
{
Mer `
e *
tri "
cious *
ness },
n .
[
1913 Webster ]
137 Moby Thesaurus words for "
meretricious ":
Gongoresque ,
Johnsonian ,
affected ,
apparent ,
bedizened ,
beggarly ,
beneath contempt ,
big -
sounding ,
blatant ,
brazen ,
brazenfaced ,
cheap ,
cheesy ,
chintzy ,
coarse ,
colorable ,
colored ,
colorful ,
common ,
contemptible ,
convoluted ,
crass ,
crude ,
crummy ,
deceptive ,
declamatory ,
delusive ,
delusory ,
despicable ,
earthy ,
elevated ,
euphuistic ,
extravagant ,
fallen ,
flagrant ,
flamboyant ,
flaming ,
flaring ,
flashy ,
flaunting ,
fulsome ,
garish ,
gaudy ,
gilded ,
gimcracky ,
glaring ,
gorgeous ,
grandiloquent ,
grandiose ,
grandisonant ,
gross ,
harlot ,
high -
flowing ,
high -
flown ,
high -
flying ,
high -
sounding ,
highfalutin ,
hustling ,
inkhorn ,
insincere ,
labyrinthine ,
lexiphanic ,
lofty ,
loud ,
lurid ,
magniloquent ,
mean ,
miserable ,
misleading ,
obscene ,
obtrusive ,
on the ,
on the town ,
orotund ,
ostensible ,
ostentatious ,
overdone ,
overelaborate ,
overinvolved ,
overwrought ,
paltry ,
pathetic ,
pave ,
pedantic ,
pitiable ,
pitiful ,
plausible ,
pompous ,
poor ,
pretentious ,
prostitute ,
prostituted ,
raw ,
rhetorical ,
ribald ,
rough ,
rubbishy ,
rude ,
sad ,
scarlet ,
screaming ,
scrubby ,
scruffy ,
scummy ,
scurvy ,
scuzzy ,
seeming ,
sensational ,
sensationalistic ,
sententious ,
shabby ,
shameless ,
shoddy ,
showy ,
sonorous ,
sorry ,
specious ,
spectacular ,
spurious ,
stilted ,
streetwalking ,
tall ,
tawdry ,
tinsel ,
tortuous ,
trashy ,
trumpery ,
two -
for -
a -
cent ,
two -
for -
a -
penny ,
twopenny ,
twopenny -
halfpenny ,
valueless ,
vile ,
vulgar ,
whorish ,
worthless ,
wretched
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