MERETRICIOUS vs GIMCRACK: NOUN
- N/A
- A cheap and showy object of little or no use; a gewgaw.
- A spruce or pert boy.
- A showy, unsubstantial thing; a pretty or fanciful thing; a toy; a gewgaw.
- A trivial mechanism; a device.
- A toy; a pretty thing; an ornamental object of no great value.
- Something showy but worthless; a gimmick or bauble.
- Ornamental objects of no great value
MERETRICIOUS vs GIMCRACK: ADJECTIVE
- Like or relating to a prostitute
- Tastelessly showy
- Attracting attention in a vulgar manner.
- Plausible but false or insincere; specious.
- Of or relating to prostitutes or prostitution.
- Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful.
- Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry.
- Deceptive or based on deception; seeming plausible, but based on pretense or insincerity; deceptive; misleading; insincere; specious.
- Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having no substance; falsely alluring.
- Based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
- Tastelessly showy
- Cheap and tasteless; gaudy.
- Showy but of poor quality; worthless.
MERETRICIOUS vs GIMCRACK: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Of or pertaining to prostitutes; wanton; libidinous.
- Alluring by false attractions; having a gaudy but deceitful appearance; tawdry; showy: as, meretricious dress or ornaments.
- Deceptively pleasing
- Based on pretense
- Also spelled jimcrack.
- Showy but trivial; fanciful or trumpery.
MERETRICIOUS vs GIMCRACK: RELATED WORDS
- Loud, Flashy, Cheap, Tatty, Brassy, Gilded, Gaudy, Insincere, Tasteless, Garish, Trashy, Tacky, Tawdry, Gimcrack, Specious
- Trifle, In poor taste, Loud, Flash, Brassy, Flashy, Cheap, Tasteless, Gaudy, Tawdry, Tatty, Trashy, Garish, Tacky, Meretricious
MERETRICIOUS vs GIMCRACK: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Loud, Flashy, Cheap, Tatty, Brassy, Gilded, Gaudy, Insincere, Tasteless, Garish, Trashy, Tacky, Tawdry, Gimcrack, Specious
- Trifle, In poor taste, Loud, Flash, Brassy, Flashy, Cheap, Tasteless, Gaudy, Tawdry, Tatty, Trashy, Garish, Tacky, Meretricious
MERETRICIOUS vs GIMCRACK: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- The message may be meretricious, but the end result is a net positive.
- True taste abhors meretricious ornaments, as much as the gospel does.
- In all of this, there was nothing meretricious, nothing affected.
- It certainly possesses much real merit, in addition to its meretricious attractions.
- Our alimony modification private investigators use proven strategies to uncover meretricious relationships.
- The Mormons are highly politically motivated, opinionated and more than somewhat meretricious.
- There are very specific standards regarding so called meretricious relationships.
- Much that was presumptuous and meretricious withered under his gaze.
- This gay life here was meretricious and artificial, I decided.
- In a word, meretricious, like the houses Gabbay dislikes.
- August 2003 -- Spurcent has started her 3yo season as she started her 2yo season with her win in the Gimcrack stakes (listed).
- Gimcrack jackass will have been extremly brutishly lived up to between the bajan courtyard.