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Significats de meretricious en anglès
Sinònims
Examples for "loud"
Examples for "loud"
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Their message is loud and clear: fix the broken food aid system.
2
Of course, I'd known Amelia's problem before she'd said it out loud.
3
We need to send Maliki's government a strong message, loud and clear.
4
Out loud she spoke English: I wish I'd brought my passport today.
5
Conclusions: Persistent, loud snoring was associated with higher rates of problem behaviors.
1
Water flowing underground News flash: scientists say there's water in Wellington Harbour.
2
The Fiji Met Service said heavy rain may lead to flash flooding.
3
They were given a new sense of urgency after the flash crash.
4
I picked my way toward the point where I'd seen the flash.
5
In another flash of lightning, he saw clearly: the car was gone.
1
Political words on issues of great note to Indigenous people are cheap.
2
Labor was very cheap in China, as well as Canton and Shanghai.
3
Farmers markets are plentiful and offer another option for great, cheap food.
4
That's a great global franchise, great management, it's cheap on book value.
5
A slew of products now address the problem-butthey don't come cheap.
1
The dust rolled in clouds over the gaudy wagons of the menagerie.
2
How stiff they were in shape and yet how gaudy in colour.
3
She went into ecstasies over the gaudy plates in the fashion paper.
4
They rode hell-for-leather down the streets, gaudy outfits glittering in the sun.
5
And there really is a certain force in the too gaudy setting.
1
Question 4: RIM has a flashy new BlackBerry handset to show off.
2
The Summer faeries need the flashy things; it's part of their trade.
3
The national temper, in the civil history, is not flashy or whiffling.
4
Yes, the latest gadgets like GPS watches are extremely cool and flashy.
5
Being independent isn't as flashy as a lot of people may think.
1
Large, sealed portholes looked out onto a garden of garish sea plants.
2
But the old beliefs seemed dim; the new ones, garish and confused.
3
And it flourishes by gaslight; by day it is garish and forlorn.
4
There are no garish rubber wristbands or long lines of cars outside.
5
She couldn't imagine a snooty society maven ever wearing something so garish.
1
Sometimes he had given the tawdry claims more credence than at others.
2
I try to focus on outlandish scenarios, images of exotic, tawdry humiliation.
3
The door opened, and in marched Mrs. Trebooze, tall, tawdry, and terrible.
4
The supper-room, garish and tawdry in its decorations, was functioning as usual.
5
The decorations do not seem tawdry, nor the tinsel other than real.
1
An American would probably think you were just saying the word 'tacky'.
2
That is a different place, you see, this is a different tacky.
3
It applies smoothly and without that tacky feeling so many sunscreens have.
4
Is the prosecutor referring to her conviction rate, which is just tacky.
5
The result could easily have been pure treacle or just very tacky.
1
It was to them like the brassy and lacquered life in hotels.
2
Tough as nails, the brassy broad had lost her perspective on humanity.
3
He sniffed up the brassy and clicking music into his vibrating nostrils.
4
What we need is a brassy tequila sunrise of a cocktail dress.
5
Above them the sky glared a brassy blue with never a could.
1
And just how damaging were its trashy, consumerist values on the population?
2
It had seemed so vital before; now it seemed absurd and trashy.
3
It is knowingly, unabashedly trashy and tells you so at every opportunity.
4
Then I got interested in grunge, trashy 90s Ibiza anthems and pop.
5
They make it simple and trashy, but there is death behind it.
1
The tatty shop was just down the road from where we played.
2
There's just something funny and likable about your average, everyday, tatty pigeon.
3
His tatty shoes were falling apart, and he only had shorts on.
4
Gradually the tavern did not seem tatty and rude, but excitingly wicked.
5
But beneath this tatty comfort blanket, there are two starkly naked truths.
1
I took out the little gimcrack I use to clean my pipe.
2
Lancing on board thet gimcrack boat, an' ain't tuh be depended on.
3
Falco, the man with this gimcrack export market is-AtiusPertinax.
4
The spirit of a whiter, rockier music hangs over Geremy Jasper's gimcrack hip-hop epic.
5
Even so, its pale-biscuit siding was gimcrack vinyl, its chalk-white trim a flimsy metal.
Ús de meretricious en anglès
1
There is not a meretricious or humiliating book in the whole collection.
2
Gloriani's statues were florid and meretricious; they looked like magnified goldsmith's work.
3
The meretricious melodrama did not fool them, but they delighted in its absurdities.
4
The over-rated, overpaid, and most meretricious painter died at Hampton Court in 1707.
5
It's a meretricious parade in which style reigns supreme over content.
6
Her great effort to keep herself young had led to a meretricious childishness.
7
But to-night her now hateful, meretricious image rose, with horrid vividness, before him.
8
It is like all your poetry-merelymeretricious glitter; there is no heart in it.
9
In the law courts the same smart epigrams, the same meretricious style were required.
10
She was half-angry with him in the carriage, and said something about meretricious manners.
11
A phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts to catch or win popular favor.
12
I'm afraid writers are apt to use stock phrases in the same meretricious fashion.
13
That meretricious splendour was the only one to be met in Mrs Verloc's visions.
14
Not a hint of meretricious emphasis on their luster and yet they fairly flame.
15
But then it looked insincere, meretricious, affected, and always haggard.
16
The home circle is select and chaste-thepromiscuous intermingling with the world meretricious and contaminating.
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