MERETRICIOUS in a Sentence

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1. The net result is that both the news columns and the editorial columns are commonly meretricious in a high degree.

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 Meanings and Examples of MERETRICIOUS
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meretricious
 a.  of or pertaining to prostitutes; tastelessly showy; lustful; deceptive; misleading
Classic Sentence:
1  He was a son of God--a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that--and he must be about His Father's Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
2  If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though possibly a meretricious, effect.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
Example Sentence:
1  The net result is that both the news columns and the editorial columns are commonly meretricious in a high degree.