Significados de meretricious ornament en inglés

No roughness disfigures, no sensualism blights, no straining for effect chills, no meretricious ornament destroys them.

In their hatred of meretricious ornament, and of what Cowper calls "creamy smoothness," they erred on the opposite side.

His style is splendid without meretricious ornament, and copious without being redundant; a fluency to which Quintilian gives the expressive appellation of "lactea ubertas."

Then the mask is taken off, meretricious ornaments are dispensed with, and consequently native qualities appear.