| 单词 | meretricious |
| 释义 | meretricious (once / 13401 pages) adj Have you ever heard the phrase "fake it until you make it"? That is advice that encourages you to be meretricious, pretending to be something you aren't, like the meretricious flaunting of gigantic fake diamond earrings, pretending they are real — and that you can afford them. To correctly pronounce meretricious, accent the third syllable: "mer-uh-TRISH-us." Don't mistake something that is meretricious for having merit. In fact, it is just the opposite. From an expensive restaurant that looks expensively furnished but when the lights are turned up, you can see that "leather" chairs are just cheap vinyl or a woman who pretends her counterfeit handbags are designer originals, meretricious actions are meant to deceive. WORD FAMILYmeretricious: meretriciously, meretriciousness USAGE EXAMPLESAnd then there’s Mr. Pence, a man whose job has been to provide evangelical cover to Mr. Trump’s meretricious version of New York values. Wall Street Journal(Oct 10, 2016) “My play would have drawn twice as much without all the meretricious trumpery they’ve bedizened it with!” New York Times(Sep 27, 2016) Lawrence, Nijinsky and Sri Ramakrishna rejected the meretricious facade of the world around them and tried to break through to some larger, truer reality. Washington Post(Aug 31, 2016) 1adj tastelessly showy a meretricious yet stylish book Syn brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy tasteless lacking aesthetic or social taste 2adj based on pretense; deceptively pleasing meretricious praise a meretricious argument Syn gilded, specious insincere lacking sincerity 3adj like or relating to a prostitute meretricious relationships |
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