"a flash car"
"a flashy ring"
"garish colors"
"a gaudy costume"
"loud sport shirts"
"a meretricious yet stylish book"
"tawdry ornaments"
based on pretense; deceptively pleasing;
"the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"
"meretricious praise"
"a meretricious argument"
meretricious的用法和样例：
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用作形容词 (adj.)
the books on her father s shelves , the paintings on the walls , the music on the piano - all was just so much meretricious display. 她父亲架上的书墙上的画和钢琴上的乐曲至多也不过是些平庸的装饰。
形容词
经典引文
It is possible to be sentimental, meretricious and even downright dishonest in painting or in music.
出自： Rosemary Manning
Like a stage set after the lights have been turned off, Key West had lost its meretricious charm.
