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meretriciousness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun meretriciousness has 2 senses
- meretriciousness(n = noun.attribute) speciousness - an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility; "the speciousness of his argument" is a kind of deceptiveness, obliquity
- meretriciousness(n = noun.attribute) brashness, flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, glitz, loudness, tawdriness - tasteless showiness; Array is a kind of tastelessness
Derived form adjective meretricious3
Derived form adjective meretricious2
CIDE DICTIONARY
meretriciousness, n.
- an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility. [WordNet 1.5]
- tasteless showiness. [WordNet 1.5]
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