Meretricious in a sentence as an adjective

Newer users up voting meretricious comments would not impact those with a high set threshold.

"""It's fine to use a thesaurus to look up an alternative word for "clever" because you already used "clever" a few sentences ago. Just don't come back with "meretricious".

It said to me:"We believe so strongly in 'meretrocracy' that we have gone from pretending to be 'meritorious' to being 'meretricious.

What exact part of "meretricious congressmen" didn't you understand?Assange has never claimed that there are no legitimate secrets.

Some of those prostitutes are every bit as meretricious and dedicated to their profession as engineers are in their chosen disciplines.

Apple HQ may be a meretricious display of precision and expensive design independently of the superficial appearance.

I'd say there was a difference between taking pictures so you had a visual memory of the time you visited Hoover Dam with Grandma, vs. taking pictures because you want an artistically meretricious result.

What a meretricious wad of navel-gazing credentialist *********.

By contrast, Bush, Cheney & Rumsfeld gave us Gulf of Tonkin II, the meretricious congressmen gave the executive branch all the power it wanted, we know that we invaded a country based on lies, 100,000s have died, and noone has been held accountable.

Meretricious definitions

adjective

like or relating to a prostitute; "meretricious relationships"

adjective

tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"

adjective

based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"

See also: gilded specious