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单词 meretricious
释义
mer·e·tri·cious (mĕrĭ-trĭshəs)
adj.
1.
a. Attracting attention in a vulgar manner: meretricious ornamentation.
b. Plausible but false or insincere; specious: made a meretricious argument.
2. Of or relating to prostitutes or prostitution: meretricious relationships.

[Latin meretrīcius, of prostitutes, from meretrīx, meretrīc-, prostitute, from merēre, to earn money; see (s)mer-2 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]

mere·tricious·ly adv.
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