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meretricious Adjective superficially or garishly attractive but of no real value [Latin meretrix prostitute]
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| He was thinking of his own self; he hankered after the meretricious glory of a showy performance. I respect and applaud your indifference to fine poetry when you can contemplate the meretricious charms of this young person. The whole mechanical outlook upon life, as she had known it, seemed, even in those few seconds, to become a false and meretricious thing. |
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