0 seeming attractive but really false or of little value:
He claims that a lot of journalism is meretricious and superficial.
These blaze off the page with an integrity of passion which makes most of the surrounding material appear loose-lipped, meretricious and trivial.
In many ways, it was a meretricious performance, but it was a gifted one in terms of verbal gymnastics.
I think this is a rather meretricious argument, because large expenditures have to be made against threats to civilisation.
Secondly, there is a certain meretricious attraction in this suggestion.
I will address the role of civil servants in that cynical process of stealing money from meretricious projects.
They make a meretricious appeal to the traditional loyalties of the dockers, who too often lend a ready ear.
We have heard accusations of opportunism and the word "meretricious" has been used about our motion.
It is entirely meretricious, and it smacks of petulance.
