(1) This dopey, loopy novel not only fails as literature but can't even deliver the cheap, meretricious thrills that make so many popular novels popular.(2) ├ö├ç├┐Glossy, meretricious crap,├ö├ç├û is his damning verdict.(3) Now some meretricious construct called Big Brother - without value, meaning or even entertainment-value - seems to captivate the luckless viewer.(4) But if millions of people can choose the meretricious rather than the meritorious in so simple a thing as coffee and cafÔö£┬«s, is it sensible to give them the vote when much more complex issues are at stake?(5) By the time I exited grad school, the feeling of an era being over - however meretricious in some of its particulars the era might have been - was unmistakable.(6) Too often, it seemed to me, he was determined to discover in a literary work what was phony or meretricious rather than what was admirable.(7) As the Telegraph explains, critics universally enjoy rubbishing his work - just poster art, says the Guardian, meretricious rubbish, says the Times.(8) This movie is quite a box of tricks, and director Alan Parker has turned the handle at the side and cranked out two hours' worth of flashy, meretricious and deeply silly nonsense.(9) If it is seduced consent, created by the meretricious fabrications of spin doctors, then democracy itself is at risk of degenerating.(10) We are so accustomed to meretricious cultural studies that when the real thing comes along, generous and suggestive, we may fail to see how many windows and veins it opens.(11) Stars no longer have the guts to protest such meretricious displays of ego and decadence with their absence, or to inappropriately hijack award shows for their own political purposes.(12) Not the old, proud, quietly beautiful gold that was cherished to them, but the meretricious , cheap, glaring bright gold that seemed to try too hard at being beautiful.(13) But anniversaries do provide an excuse to look beyond the meretricious present and pepper the pages of our pallid and alliteration-strewn papers with remembrances of times past.(14) ├ö├ç├┐A mendacious, monkey-brained leader with a meretricious , money-grabbing wife├ö├ç├û, he says, just to give you a little more context.(15) There's something cheap about this sort of fake wisdom, something tawdry, meretricious , something├ö├ç┬¬ what's the word I'm looking for?(16) They were attacked as meretricious and manipulative, but what is film-making anyway but that?
