By his meretriciousness, he has taken himself out. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 31, 2007] Reference
In the Clintons 'orbit, meretriciousness is as reflexive as a sneeze, and reflexes are not moral failures. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Hillary Personally Slams Obama Over Reagan Comments] Reference
But she looked sad, more real than Ella had ever seen her, all the meretriciousness, the desperate girlishness, gone. From Wordnik.com. [Portobello] Reference
I totally support your efforts to expose the meretriciousness of the Republicans, but I fear the problem is much bigger. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Censure: Time to Do the Right Thing] Reference
In the take-over of Labour by meretriciousness, its nonconformist traditions, rooted in the world of work, in mutual aid and self-improvement have largely gone. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-05-22] Reference
History will judge those whose meretriciousness, though partly obscured now by the fog of war and passionate debate, will be all to obvious to future generations. From Wordnik.com. [Why The Media Lavishes Coverage On Pollack And O'Hanlon] Reference
He just lets his quotations lie resplendently (in both senses of the word “lie”) on the page and allows the attentive reader to savor their many-layered meretriciousness. From Wordnik.com. [For a Guilty Nation, Docu-Satire My Bad Profoundly Scorches] Reference
But there was a meretriciousness to the speech tonight that I find deeply troubling, particularly in the use of beautiful words and cadences to slide past the underlying reality. From Wordnik.com. [Mayhill Fowler: A Few Small Questions About Obama's Afghanistan Surge] Reference
Given the old, unattractive ideas and dishonest claims of McCain/Palin, I'd say Obama's fault is in not speaking more directly and unambiguously to the meretriciousness of their rhetoric. From Wordnik.com. ["You know, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called 'change,' it’s still gonna stink."] Reference
The striver may wind up with the bigger house, better car and nicer vacations, but the very meretriciousness of these aspirations confirms the liberal arts major's belief in the striver's inferior taste and barren inner life. From Wordnik.com. [The Roots of Liberal Condescension] Reference
Consequently a matron will do well to avoid and repudiate over-preciseness meretriciousness and pomposity, and to use tact in her dealings with her husband in every-day life, accustoming him to a combination of pleasure and decorum. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
She felt that she was a living part of John's meretriciousness. From Wordnik.com. [Leonora] Reference
The title is a measure of the political class 'meretriciousness. From Wordnik.com. [Tech Support Forums - TechIMO.com] Reference
The meretriciousness of women and their love of luxury are denounced. From Wordnik.com. [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference
It's moving towards - and I say this with all respect - meretriciousness. From Wordnik.com. [signandsight.com] Reference
Painter and sculptor Markus Lüpertz lashes out at the meretriciousness of photography. From Wordnik.com. [signandsight.com] Reference
We are to ignore the viciousness and meretriciousness of the regime, at home, and abroad. From Wordnik.com. [Jihad Watch] Reference
There was a suggestion of meretriciousness in the tinted lips and the pretence of colour on the charming face. From Wordnik.com. [The Hand in the Dark] Reference
If not touched by city elegance, neither is it infected by city meretriciousness; it is sweet, wholesome country. From Wordnik.com. [Literary and Social Essays] Reference
The unsuccessful woman blames, never herself, but either the outrageous meretriciousness of her rival, or the blindness of the man she loses. From Wordnik.com. [Hints for Lovers] Reference
Others might well think it a brilliantly achieved technical exercise but overly weighed-down by ponderousness and meretriciousness, with ultimately not very much to say. From Wordnik.com. [DVD Times] Reference
It seemed to Annesley also that her lips were less red than before; and though she was as remarkable as ever for her beauty, she was not to be remarked for meretriciousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Latchkey] Reference
Correggio 'both of weakness and meretriciousness,' and there is this to be said of a nature so highly strung as Correggio's was strung, that it was not a healthily balanced nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art] Reference
And then it might be explained to their riveted intelligence how they had mistaken meretriciousness for mastery, and by what mean methods the imposture had been practised upon them. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Art of Making Enemies] Reference
What this attitude chiefly wars with, even above cheapness, meretriciousness and banality, is the fatuous effort to turn the theater, a place of amusement, into a sort of outhouse to the academic grove - the. From Wordnik.com. [Prejudices : first series,] Reference
Rome, for the movement to Turin of the Italian Government had deprived the Republic of quite a quantity of sentimental prestige, and had haloed the old religious nonsense with all the meretriciousness of historical association. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the World] Reference
It is devoid of meretriciousness and of any suspicion of seeking after virility; it is so sincere, so true to the underlying thought, that it seems to me to have an unusual chance of interesting attention and stirring emotions increasingly with the years. From Wordnik.com. [Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions] Reference
Yes, I, so intrepid at heart, and but lately so coarse in my manners, felt ill at ease and abashed in their presence; and it needed all Edmee's reproaches and remonstrances to prevent me from displaying a profound contempt for this meretriciousness of glances, of toilets, and allurements which was known in society as allowable coquetry, as the charming desire to please, as amiability, and as grace. From Wordnik.com. [Mauprat] Reference
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