List of antonyms from "mercurial" to antonyms from "mesmerized"


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Definition of the day : « meretricious »

  • adj gaudy, flashy
Example sentences :
  • It is so beautiful that I'm dreadfully afraid it is meretricious.
  • Extract from : « A Venetian June » by Anna Fuller
  • There is not a meretricious or humiliating book in the whole collection.
  • Extract from : « The Greatest English Classic » by Cleland Boyd McAfee
  • There is nothing showy or clever, nothing cheap or meretricious in all their work.
  • Extract from : « Chats on Royal Copenhagen Porcelain » by Arthur Hayden
  • She was half-angry with him in the carriage, and said something about meretricious manners.
  • Extract from : « Barchester Towers » by Anthony Trollope
  • She fought against it from an instinctive feeling that it was meretricious.
  • Extract from : « Coquette » by Frank Swinnerton
  • But then it looked insincere, meretricious, affected, and always haggard.
  • Extract from : « The Way of Ambition » by Robert Hichens
  • Unlike his neighbor, Grieg, he is never mincing and meretricious.
  • Extract from : « Musical Portraits » by Paul Rosenfeld
  • The meretricious melodrama did not fool them, but they delighted in its absurdities.
  • Extract from : « The Plastic Age » by Percy Marks
  • Meretricious ornaments and manners were necessary to attract his attention.
  • Extract from : « Maria » by Mary Wollstonecraft
  • In painting he contented himself with a negative colour, and as the painter of mankind, rejected all meretricious ornament.
  • Extract from : « The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Vol. II (of 3) » by Henry Fuseli