Having the deep slightly brownish color of gold.
Rich and superior in quality.
Based on pretense; deceptively pleasing.
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Examples for "specious "
Examples for "specious "
1 It was specious - which is the best that can be said for it.
2 He would be put on the sacrificial altar for that specious truth.
3 His demand of the supreme authority was evaded on some specious pretext.
4 Drawing specious connections isn't just for musicians, but music journos as well.
5 His reasoning is specious , but beneath the sophistry there is a plan.
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.
1 At eight in the morning the sun already gilded the vast opening.
2 I have all the philosophers in my library gilded on the edges.
3 The brightest of sunshine gilded the spires and steeples of the village.
4 The gilded Swiss clock in the drawing-room was striking its tiny gong.
5 The morning sun gilded the new lapis collar that she was wearing.
6 One case of large gilded coins for the coast of China, i
7 The edges are richly gilded , and figures are pricked in the gilding.
8 At the same time the summit of the height was becoming gilded .
9 The arrows of the decumbent sun gilded the ripening grapes above them.
10 He stopped the cab before the gilded gate of the detached house.
11 The dark tops of the trees were gilded by the first rays.
12 At the farther end, the King sat in his shining gilded chair.
13 Joy and pleasure reigned in the beautifully gilded apartment where Sophie lived.
14 We have dined and the steam is singing in our gilded radiator.
15 At half-eclipse the moon was like a gilded acorn in its cup.
16 At noon the voice again addressed him from behind the gilded screen:
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