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Meanings of meretricious ornament in English
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Usage of meretricious ornament in English
1
No roughness disfigures, no sensualism blights, no straining for effect chills, no meretricious ornament destroys them.
2
In their hatred of meretricious ornament, and of what Cowper calls "creamy smoothness," they erred on the opposite side.
3
His style is splendid without meretricious ornament, and copious without being redundant; a fluency to which Quintilian gives the expressive appellation of "lactea ubertas."
4
Then the mask is taken off, meretricious ornaments are dispensed with, and consequently native qualities appear.