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meretricious

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1 meretricious

Like or relating to a prostitute.

Roget 961: impure; unclean etc. (dirty) 653; not to be mentioned to ears polite; immodest, shameless; indecorous, indelicate, indecent; Fescennine; loose, ... meer laten zien

Roget 545: deceived etc. v.; deceiving &c.; cunning etc. 702; prestigious, prestigiatory; deceptive, deceptious; deceitful, ... meer laten zien

Pools: kurewski

2 meretricious

Tastelessly showy:
— A meretricious yet stylish book.

synoniemen: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, tacky, tatty ... meer laten zien.

Roget 851: in bad taste vulgar, unrefined.    coarse, indecorous, ribald, gross; unseemly, unbeseeming, unpresentable; contra bonos mores [Lat.]; ungraceful etc. (ugly) 846.    ... meer laten zien

Pools: tromtadracki, szpanerski, efekciarski, kabotyƄski

3 meretricious

Based on pretense; deceptively pleasing:
— Meretricious praise.
— A meretricious argument.

synoniemen: gilded, glossy, specious.


Moby betekeniswoordenboek: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, apparent, bedizened, beggarly, beneath contempt, big-sounding, blatant, brazen, brazenfaced, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, coarse, colorable, colored, colorful, common, contemptible ... meer laten zien.

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