Crossword-Solution: MERETRICIOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Meretricious | a. | Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic. |
| Meretricious | a. | Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry; as, meretricious dress or ornaments. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “MERETRICIOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Appearing attractive but in reality having no value | 1 answer |
| like or relating to a prostitute | 1 answer |
| Tawdry | 31 answers |
| Garish | 43 answers |
| Decorated | 45 answers |
| Flash-y? | 47 answers |
| Gaudy | 54 answers |
| Showy | 58 answers |
| Illusory | 59 answers |
| Ostentatious | 65 answers |
| delusive | 69 answers |
| masked | 69 answers |
| Cheap | 75 answers |
| fake | 88 answers |
| False ___ | 91 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with MERETRICIOUS (5)
What is art beside love? I respect and applaud your indifference to fine poetry when you can contemplate the meretricious charms of this young person.” She passed by the table at which they were sitting, and he took her arm.
The road from Surbiton and Epsom ran under the arch, and, like a bright fungoid growth in the ditch, there was now appearing a sort of fourth estate of little red-and-white rough-cast villas, with meretricious gables and very brassy window-blinds.
Not I! There in that great pile of Victorian architecture the landlords and the lawyers, the bishops, the railway men and the magnates of commerce go to and fro—in their incurable tradition of commercialised Bladesovery, of meretricious gentry and nobility sold for riches.
This portion of London was in consequence commonly the gayest of all its districts, with something of the meretricious gaiety of a seaport or city of hotels.
The same may be said, my dear fellow, for the effect of some of these little sketches of yours, which is entirely meretricious, depending as it does upon your retaining in your own hands some factors in the problem which are never imparted to the reader.
Quotes with MERETRICIOUS (3)
It is, I think, this glamour, this magic, this incomparable keying up of the spirit in a time of mortal conflict, which constitute the pacifist's real problem--a problem still incompletely imagined and still quite unsolved. The causes of war are always falsely represented; its honour is dishonest and its glory meretricious, but the challenge to spiritual endurance, the intense sharpening of all the senses, the vitalising consciousness of common peril for a common end, remain …
I have the advantage of knowing your habits, my dear Watson," said he. "When your round is a short one you walk, and when it is a long one you use a hansom. As I perceive that your boots, although used, are by no means dirty, I cannot doubt that you are at present busy enough to justify the hansom." "Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he. "It is one of those instances where the reasoner can produce an effect which seems remarkable to his neighbour, because the latter has…
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