meretricious in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

Translations for meretricious in the English»Italian Dictionary

meretricious [Brit ˌmɛrɪˈtrɪʃəs, Am ˌmɛrəˈtrɪʃəs] ADJ

meretricious glamour, charm

vistoso, appariscente, artificioso

meretricious policy

falsamente allettante, ipocrita

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Place a heavy bet on the meretricious.

blogs.telegraph.co.uk

Sport, in full view, the meretricious breast.

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There is nothing fraudulent about her eloquence, nothing remotely shifty or meretricious about the beauty of her sentences.

www.newyorker.com

Both parts of this packaging are meretricious and disingenuous.

blogs.discovermagazine.com

If we resent being disturbed and provoked, we try to dismiss a work as meretricious and sensationalist.

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The things that give you a genuine sense of that and not just a meretricious one are rare and precious.

www.standard.co.uk

Of course, this is entirely meretricious, and largely at odds with the real world.

www.brisbanetimes.com.au

It allowed it to be meretricious rubbish.

www.spectator.co.uk

We aren't like them - vain, duplicitous and meretricious.

www.bbc.co.uk

And let us not overlook the fair number of trashy, meretricious cashings-in on the case.

www.independent.co.uk