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Six example sentences with meretricious, each labelled with its topic.
The critic called the mural meretricious, all gold leaf and grand gestures with nothing underneath worth a second look.
Art
The tower looks impressive from the highway, but its meretricious cladding hides thin walls and corridors nobody can use.
Architecture
Investors eventually saw the meretricious demo for what it was: a polished video over a product that barely ran.
Startups
Reviewers called the novel meretricious, dazzling on every page but empty once you asked what it was about.
Literature
The film is meretricious spectacle, an hour of car chases stitched to a story nobody in the editing room believed.
Movies
The fund's meretricious returns came from fees hidden in a footnote, not from any real skill in picking stocks.
Finance
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