I'm don't think you were referring to me, but I'm not sure I like ANY of these definitions, lol!
"Definitions of meretricious on the Web:
like or relating to a prostitute; "meretricious relationships"
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tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn
based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"
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So, which were you intending, Mike? ;-) |