Dictionary Entry
meretricious
meretricious is a 12-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
12 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 19 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic.
- 2adjective
Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry; as, meretricious dress or ornaments.
- 3adjective
based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
"the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"
"meretricious praise"
- 4adjective
tastelessly showy
"a flash car"
"a flashy ring"
- 5adjective
like or relating to a prostitute
"meretricious relationships"
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