Thesaurus / meretricious
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Then the mask is taken off, meretricious ornaments are dispensed with, and consequently native qualities appear.
FEMALE SCRIPTURE BIOGRAPHIES, VOL. IFRANCIS AUGUSTUS COXBut to-night her now hateful, meretricious image rose, with horrid vividness, before him.
WHAT TIMMY DIDMARIE ADELAIDE BELLOC LOWNDESAs in everything that Seguin has painted, there was undoubtedly a certain meretricious beauty and force about it.
BABYLON, VOLUME 2 (OF 3)GRANT ALLENA pintura de la Feria became a term in Spain for a meretricious picture.
THE STORY OF SEVILLEWALTER M. GALLICHANThe people are already beginning to distinguish between the wholesome and the meretricious in their newspapers.
MARSE HENRY (VOL. 2)HENRY WATTERSONThe interior is dark and solemn, with much less gilding and meretricious ornament than is usual in Roman churches.
ROMAN MOSAICSHUGH MACMILLANHe was the idol of his day, but his meretricious art was the subject of very pungent criticism from the not very austere Diderot.
A POPULAR HANDBOOK TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY, VOLUME I, FOREIGN SCHOOLSVARIOUSMeretricious coloring and gaudy ornament succeeded the refinement and restraint of the earlier days and so the art perished.
THE POTTER'S CRAFTCHARLES F. BINNSAre not the people being educated in the use of and belief in machine-made ornament and meretricious display?
THE POTTER'S CRAFTCHARLES F. BINNSI'm afraid writers are apt to use stock phrases in the same meretricious fashion.
GREENWICH VILLAGEANNA ALICE CHAPINWORDS RELATED TO MERETRICIOUS
- bad
- base
- bogus
- catchpenny
- cheesy
- common
- commonplace
- crappy
- cruddy
- dud
- flashy
- garbage
- garish
- glitzy
- junky
- lousy
- mangy
- mean
- mediocre
- meretricious
- no bargain
- no good
- ordinary
- paltry
- poor
- ratty
- raunchy
- rinky-dink
- rotten
- rubbishy
- scroungy
- second-rate
- shoddy
- sleazy
- small-time
- tatty
- tawdry
- terrible
- trashy
- trumpery
- two-bit
- valueless
- white elephant
- worthless
- bad
- base
- bogus
- catchpenny
- cheesy
- common
- commonplace
- crappy
- cruddy
- dud
- flashy
- garbage
- garish
- glitzy
- junky
- lousy
- mangy
- mean
- mediocre
- meretricious
- no bargain
- no good
- ordinary
- paltry
- poor
- ratty
- raunchy
- rinky-dink
- rotten
- rubbishy
- scroungy
- second-rate
- shoddy
- sleazy
- small-time
- tatty
- tawdry
- terrible
- trashy
- trumpery
- two-bit
- valueless
- white elephant
- worthless
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