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Significados de meretricious em inglês

Tastelessly showy.

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Based on pretense; deceptively pleasing.

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Examples for "gilded"
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At eight in the morning the sun already gilded the vast opening.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 3
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I have all the philosophers in my library gilded on the edges.
Les Misérables
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The brightest of sunshine gilded the spires and steeples of the village.
Andy the Acrobat / Or, Out with the Greatest Show on Earth
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The gilded Swiss clock in the drawing-room was striking its tiny gong.
The Pretty Lady
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The morning sun gilded the new lapis collar that she was wearing.
Nefertiti
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It was specious-whichis the best that can be said for it.
The Life of Cesare Borgia
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He would be put on the sacrificial altar for that specious truth.
Rakes and radishes
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His demand of the supreme authority was evaded on some specious pretext.
The History of the Thirty Years' War
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Drawing specious connections isn't just for musicians, but music journos as well.
Wired
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His reasoning is specious, but beneath the sophistry there is a plan.
Anthropology of an american girl: a novel

Woman.

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Uso de meretricious em inglês
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There is not a meretricious or humiliating book in the whole collection.
The Greatest English Classic / A Study of the King James Version...
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Gloriani's statues were florid and meretricious; they looked like magnified goldsmith's work.
Roderick Hudson
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The meretricious melodrama did not fool them, but they delighted in its absurdities.
The Plastic Age
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The over-rated, overpaid, and most meretricious painter died at Hampton Court in 1707.
Art in England: Notes and Studies
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It's a meretricious parade in which style reigns supreme over content.
The Irish Times
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Her great effort to keep herself young had led to a meretricious childishness.
A Little Girl in Old Quebec
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But to-night her now hateful, meretricious image rose, with horrid vividness, before him.
What Timmy Did
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It is like all your poetry-merelymeretricious glitter; there is no heart in it.
Mike Fletcher: A Novel
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In the law courts the same smart epigrams, the same meretricious style were required.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
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She was half-angry with him in the carriage, and said something about meretricious manners.
Barchester Towers
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A phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts to catch or win popular favor.
The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section A and B
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I'm afraid writers are apt to use stock phrases in the same meretricious fashion.
Greenwich Village
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That meretricious splendour was the only one to be met in Mrs Verloc's visions.
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
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Not a hint of meretricious emphasis on their luster and yet they fairly flame.
Hillsboro People
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But then it looked insincere, meretricious, affected, and always haggard.
The Way of Ambition
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The home circle is select and chaste-thepromiscuous intermingling with the world meretricious and contaminating.
The Memories of Fifty Years / Containing Brief Biographical Noti...
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