meretricious

My house- she tried the words out, and at first they seemed strange, almost meretricious.

There was nothing meretricious about the little habitation I now entered.

It is an honorable film, naïve perhaps, but far from meretricious.

Meretricious ornaments and manners were necessary to attract his attention.

It's a meretricious attempt to play on our emotions.

It may seem obvious that a separation agreement is not what used to be called a "meretricious contract."

In the novels it is the resort of the vulgar and meretricious.

He found nearly all the contemporary German art and music fostered in party exhibitions meretricious.

The middlebrow are meretricious - which is much less demanding than authenticity.

Huge prices being paid for meretricious art are as old as the hills.

Some of this work is meretricious but some may gradually transform the way we think about music.

Much that was presumptuous and meretricious withered under his gaze.

"obviously meretricious, but disclosing a narrative gift which might be used to better purpose".

I've already turned up a masterpiece of the Late Meretricious!"

But observe how meretricious the phrase is made up of what evasions and old lies.

We wondered what the old boy saw in that rather insipid and meretricious little bag of tricks.

But the university's own dons have called the furniture "meretricious" and "inappropriate".

But he also recognized the "vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty" of those gestures.

I think the book is meretricious, and wrong."

But who does the selecting, who separates those with merit from the meretricious?

Most masters, however, do not do this sort of thing for it is meretricious, and, at best, a joke.

I came to learn early on that no venal or meretricious enterprise existed without a community's consent.

Somehow the early morning sunlight made her brassy good looks seem ever more meretricious than they had the preceding evening.

To be sure, that imperative can produce meretricious results; but as programmatic demands go, "Dare!"

There is something meretricious and all too easy about this proposition and the narrative that carries it.