The boat is meretriciously decorated. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
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Seldom has self-imposed victimhood been exploited so meretriciously as it is here. From Wordnik.com. [Matt Osborne: Sarahpalooza!] Reference
Thus events which some saw as catastrophic for all Britons were at best glibly and meretriciously dealt with and at worst by standing truth and history on their heads. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-06-03] Reference
Since other countries could conceivably, if meretriciously, argue that the British had, by rejecting it, effectively voted themselves out of the Union, this line of argument could make influential converts, not least in the City. From Wordnik.com. [Treaty to test the strongest constitution] Reference
By meretriciously claiming in New Delhi that the U.S. From Wordnik.com. [Shadow Warrior] Reference
Being incapable of sacrifice, they find something meretriciously melodramatic about men and nations who are capable. From Wordnik.com. [Out To Win The Story of America in France] Reference
Art, like literature, languished during the Revolution, or meretriciously touched herself up with the fashionable rouge. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution A Short History] Reference
In an online article, meretriciously titled, "The Catholic Crusade Against a Mythical Abortion Bill," TIME �, in partnership. From Wordnik.com. [ProLifeBlogs] Reference
And that's why the military commissions, no matter how meretriciously enhanced, can never serve as an acceptable alternative to a true court of law. From Wordnik.com. [Salon] Reference
Nor would they meretriciously bandy the word "deniers" to disparage skepticism that shocks communicants in the faith-based global warming community. From Wordnik.com. [HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News] Reference
In the hall were pillars which looked as if they were made of brawn, and arches with lozenges of azure paint in which golden stars appeared rather meretriciously. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman with the Fan] Reference
There was about him that sense of secret power that only politicians, usually meretriciously, and diplomats, and, above all, great bankers as a rule possess; yet he seldom talked of his own life, or the mission that had brought him to. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
In former days, whenever I met a young musician who had come in contact with Mendelssohn, I learnt that the master had admonished him not to think of effect when composing, and to avoid everything that might prove meretriciously impressive. From Wordnik.com. [On Conducting (Üeber Das Dirigiren) : a Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music,] Reference
Such art was also for the masses of the people who cannot pay for original art, save in its first uncertain developments, when the stagier it is, the blacker, the bolder, the more meretriciously pretty or fantastically horrible, the better it is relished by its public. From Wordnik.com. [A Houseful of Girls] Reference
Two towers meretriciously mosaiced with coloured tiles balanced the centre of the higher and middle building, and a portico of iron and glass, ornate yet banal as the architecture of a railway station, protected the carpeted steps and the three large doors which were grouped closely together, doors through which people constantly passed in and out like bees at the entrance to a hive. From Wordnik.com. [The Guests Of Hercules] Reference
But to transfer humanity from its natural basis, our legitimate and home-bred connections, -- to lose all feeling for those who have grown up by our sides, in our eyes, the benefit of whose cares and labors we have partaken from our birth, and meretriciously to hunt abroad after foreign affections, is such a disarrangement of the whole system of our duties, that I do not know whether benevolence so displaced is not almost the same thing as destroyed, or what effect bigotry could have produced that is more fatal to society. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12)] Reference
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