Synonymer
Ingen översättning hittades i den valda målspråket.
Definitioner
Adjektiv
- (obsolete) Of, or relating to prostitutes or prostitution.
- Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having in reality no value or substance; falsely alluring.
Exempel
- He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
- When I lifted my eyes from the page, there was none of the meretricious argument London always offers that the sole real purpose in life is to hustle for a buck.
Böjningsformer
| Komparativ | more meretricious |
| Superlativ | most meretricious |