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Definition of Meretriciously
1. Adverb. In a meretricious manner. "The boat is meretriciously decorated"
Definition of Meretriciously
1. Adverb. In a meretricious manner. ¹
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Definition of Meretriciously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meretriciously
Literary usage of Meretriciously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mysteries of the Court of London by George William MacArthur Reynolds (1856)
"... as we have already said, they were replete with a voluptuous abandonment, and
the charms of those lovely creatures were most meretriciously displayed. ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1903)
"... bound in meretriciously decorated paper covers and bearing such titles as 'Chair
en Folie,' 'Courtisanes des Salons,' 'Un Corps de Femme,' etc. ..."
3. The Contemporary Review (1870)
"... doing something are not like pictures of meretriciously beautiful Saints
standing to be adored. No one could worship a Saint of ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"... influence it beneficially or detrimentally (which everyone knows or professes
to believe); (2) that this influence is being utilized meretriciously (as ..."
5. The Bookman (1908)
"Dr. Riley ascribes to Franklin's utilitarianism his exposure of Mesmer and of
Mesmerism as practised so meretriciously in France. ..."
6. Present Philosophical Tendencies: A Critical Survey of Naturalism, Idealism by Ralph Barton Perry (1912)
"The errors of pseudo-simplicity and indefinite potentiality are meretriciously
relieved of their real barrenly by the further error of ' verbal suggestion. ..."
7. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1897)
"... she decided that a place where her husband's family had lived ought not to
stand forth meretriciously spangled and daubed, like a show-booth at a fair, ..."
8. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"Behind me tall Pera began to glitter meretriciously. The Greek barbers, I kne\v,
were standing impudently before the doors of their little saloons, ..."
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