242. Meretricious - CPE Vocabulary

Meretricious : 겉치레뿐인, 겉만 번지르르한

Meretriciously : 겉만 번지르르하게, 성실성이 없이

 

It looks really flashly and attractive but in reality it has little value or no value, perheps it is false

meretricious story

It looks really great but it is flashy, pretentious and gaudy

meretricious souvenir but  they are basically just something that are worthless

something is pretentious, ostentatious

stylish book seems to be high brow for intelligent people but in fact they are meretricious

flashy, gaudy, trashy, garish

superficially good but it's brassy, cheapo, tatty

meretricious photographs

meretricious advertisement 

 

Formality : 6.5 - 7

 

 

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