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Meretricious Common

Origin: Latin suffix -ous

Meretricious has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Adjective
1

like or relating to a prostitute

"meretricious relationships"

2

tastelessly showy

"a flash car"

"a flashy ring"

"garish colors"

"a gaudy costume"

"loud sport shirts"

"a meretricious yet stylish book"

"tawdry ornaments"

3

based on pretense; deceptively pleasing

"the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"

"meretricious praise"

"a meretricious argument"

4

Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having in reality no value or substance; falsely alluring.

Example Sentences
"meretricious relationships" adjective
"a flash car" adjective
"a flashy ring" adjective
"garish colors" adjective
"a gaudy costume" adjective
"loud sport shirts" adjective
"a meretricious yet stylish book" adjective
"tawdry ornaments" adjective
"the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility" adjective
"meretricious praise" adjective
See Also
meretriciousness flaunty merit tastelessly meretriciously brummagem unmeretricious gaudy
Related Terms
Rhyming Words
ous lous pous vous sous yous nous tous eous uous ious bous hous pious anous thous chous aneous mucous famous
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