The meaning of Meretricious

adjective

Made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally, especially as a copy of something natural.

Usage examples:

Her skin glowed in the artificial light

adjective

Made by people, often as a copy of something natural

Usage examples:

Artificial flowers, artificial grass, an artificial leg, an artificial smile, the actors were encou…

adjective

Not sincere

Usage examples:

Their cheerfulness seemed rather strained and artificial.

adjective

Not genuine or true (used in a disapproving manner when deception has been attempted).

Usage examples:

A bogus insurance claim

adjective

Relating to birmingham or the dialect of english spoken there.

Usage examples:

'proper brummie: a dictionary of birmingham words and phrases', compiled by steve thorne and carl c…

adjective

Low in price, especially in relation to similar items or services.

Usage examples:

Local buses were reliable and cheap

adverb

At or for a low price.

Usage examples:

A house that was going cheap because of the war

adjective

Costing little money or less than is usual or expected

Usage examples:

After world war ii, the us had cheap labor, cheap energy, cheap raw materials, cheap housing, cheap…

adjective

Of, like, or decorated with chintz.

Usage examples:

A pretty, chintzy fabric

adjective

(of things) cheap and not well made, or (of people) not willing to spend money

Usage examples:

He never tipped enough – he was too chintzy.

adjective

Not genuine; imitation or counterfeit.

Usage examples:

She got on the plane with a fake passport

noun

A thing that is not genuine; a forgery or sham.

Usage examples:

Fakes of old masters

verb

Forge or counterfeit (something).

Usage examples:

She faked her spouse's signature

verb

Forge or counterfeit (something).

Usage examples:

She faked her spouse's signature

verb

Variant spelling of flake4 (verb).

verb

Lay (a rope) in loose coils in order to prevent it tangling.

Usage examples:

A cable had to be flaked out

adjective

Not according with truth or fact; incorrect.

Usage examples:

He was feeding false information to his customers

adjective

(of things) not real, but made to look real, or (of information) not true but made to seem true in order to deceive

Usage examples:

Haban used false identification to enter france., the company presented clients with documents cont…

adjective

Not true or correct

Usage examples:

It is an offense to give false information on your application form., the wanted man is known to be…

adjective

Ostentatiously attractive or impressive.

Usage examples:

He always had a flashy car

adjective

Expensive or stylish, or brightly colored

Usage examples:

He wears flashy clothes.

adjective

Obtained, done by, or involving deception, especially criminal deception.

Usage examples:

Fraudulent share dealing

adjective

Not what it claims or pretends to be

Usage examples:

Fraudulent advertising, there’s been a rise in fraudulent insurance claims.

adjective

Intended to deceive someone, for example, to get money

Usage examples:

They thought i might try to collect insurance on a fraudulent claim., for a charge of fraudulent tr…

adjective

Obtrusively bright and showy; lurid.

Usage examples:

Garish shirts in all sorts of colours

adjective

Extravagantly bright or showy, typically so as to be tasteless.

Usage examples:

Silver bows and gaudy ribbons

noun

A celebratory dinner or entertainment held by a college for old members.

Usage examples:

Administratively, the college cannot cope with more than one gaudy per year

adjective

Having too many bright colors

Usage examples:

He was wearing a gaudy hawaiian shirt.

noun

The action of using someone or something as a model.

Usage examples:

A child learns to speak by imitation

noun

Something copied, or the act of copying

Usage examples:

Freya does a pretty good imitation of her science teacher., [ c ] imitation leather

adjective

(of art, objects, or design) considered to be in poor taste because of excessive garishness or sentimentality, but sometimes appreciated in an ironic or knowing way.

Usage examples:

Kitschy souvenir shops

adjective

Connected with art, decorative objects, or design considered by many people to be ugly, without style, or false, but enjoyed by other people, often because they are funny

Usage examples:

A kitschy gilt-framed mirror, the room was decorated in a cheerfully kitschy style.

adjective

Producing or capable of producing much noise.

Usage examples:

They were kept awake by loud music

adverb

With a great deal of volume.

Usage examples:

They shouted as loud as they could

adjective

Having or producing a large amount of sound

Usage examples:

A loud noise, would you speak a little louder, please?, "what does she want now?" he asked loudly.,…

noun

A synthetic material made from a wide range of organic polymers such as polyethylene, pvc, nylon, etc., that can be moulded into shape while soft, and then set into a rigid or slightly elastic form.

Usage examples:

Mains pipes should be made of plastic or copper

adjective

Made of plastic.

Usage examples:

Plastic bottles

Synthetic material that can be molded into objects

adjective

Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is actually possessed.

Usage examples:

Pretentious art films

adjective

Trying to give the appearance of great importance, esp. in a way that is obvious

Usage examples:

Pretentious restaurants, pretentious, silly poetry

noun

A thing that is not what it is purported to be.

Usage examples:

Our current free health service is a sham

adjective

Bogus; false.

Usage examples:

A clergyman who arranged a sham marriage

verb

Short for pillow sham.

adjective

Superficially plausible, but actually wrong.

Usage examples:

A specious argument

adjective

Seeming to be right or true, but really wrong or false

Usage examples:

A specious distinction, his whole argument is specious.

adjective

Not being what it purports to be; false or fake.

Usage examples:

Separating authentic and spurious claims

noun

A game in which two players take turns putting o’s or x’s in a pattern of nine squares, trying to get three o’s or x’s in a straight line

adjective

Lacking flavour.

Usage examples:

The vegetables were watery and tasteless

adjective

Showing such bad judgment as to be offensive

Usage examples:

They received hundreds of complaints after he told a tasteless joke on tv., the soup was watery and…

adjective

Showy but cheap and of poor quality.

Usage examples:

Tawdry jewellery

noun

Cheap and gaudy finery.

Usage examples:

I had seen him in procession with his golden crook, preceded by the priests of his diocese, dressed…

adjective

Showy, cheap, and of poor quality

Usage examples:

Tawdry jewelry/furnishings

noun

A form of decoration consisting of thin strips of shiny metal foil attached to a long piece of thread.

Usage examples:

A room bedecked with tinsel and fairy lights

adjective

(especially of items of popular culture) of poor quality.

Usage examples:

Trashy novels and formulaic movies

adjective

Worthless, or of low quality

Usage examples:

Trashy romance novels