meretricious

释义

adj.俗艳的，华而不实的; 俗不可耐

实用场景例句

Gaudy, meretricious trinkets of poor craftsmanship.

俗丽花哨、做工粗糙的小饰品。

金山词霸

A wooden building painted to look like marble is meretricious.

一座漆得像大理石般的木制建筑物外表是美丽的.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

Her room was painted in meretricious technicolour.

她的房间刷着俗艳的颜色。

辞典例句

英英释义

Adjective

1. like or relating to a prostitute;

"meretricious relationships"

2. tastelessly showy;

"a flash car"

"a flashy ring"

"garish colors"

"a gaudy costume"

"loud sport shirts"

"a meretricious yet stylish book"

"tawdry ornaments"

3. based on pretense; deceptively pleasing;

"the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"

"meretricious praise"

"a meretricious argument"