Sentence examples for meretricious from inspiring English sources

It was the hangover of a meretricious general election.

Elected mayors are just a meretricious addition.

The opposition of Democrats in Congress to Bush administration proposals for Social-Security reforms in 2005 came in the context of a sweeping proposal to partially privatise the system, involving a meretricious attempt to confuse voters about its current financing.

There is a boring Luca Giordano and a meretricious pair of Mel Ramos breasts.

For some, this oversight only confirmed suspicions that commission staff overlook potentially exculpatory evidence.Moreover, trustbusters are as much settlers of disputes between rival firms as guardians of vibrant competition, and that dual role may encourage meretricious cases.

He believed in beauty, recognised it in women and, amid the meretricious, created his share of it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's Gatsby in his novel The Great Gatsby (1925) is betrayed by his own meretricious dream, nurtured by a meretricious society.

Fanny emerges as a true heroine whose moral strength eventually wins her complete acceptance in the Bertram family and marriage to Edmund Bertram himself, after that family's disastrous involvement with the meretricious and loose-living Crawfords.

Nick watches as Gatsby is betrayed by his own dreams, which have been nurtured by a meretricious society.

Under the Flavians and Antonines, an artificial rhetoric, constantly straining after meretricious effects, replaced it.

Nagai Kafū was infatuated with French culture and described with contempt the meretricious surface of modern Japan.