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We found 29 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word meretricious:
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General dictionaries General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. meretricious: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. meretricious: V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary [home, info]
  3. meretricious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  4. meretricious: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  5. meretricious: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  6. meretricious: Wiktionary [home, info]
  7. meretricious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  8. meretricious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  9. meretricious: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  10. Meretricious, meretricious: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  11. meretricious: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  12. meretricious: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  13. Meretricious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  14. meretricious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  15. meretricious: Rhymezone [home, info]
  16. Meretricious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  17. meretricious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  18. meretricious: Hutchinson's Dictionary of Difficult Words [home, info]
  19. meretricious: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  20. meretricious: Hutchinson Dictionaries [home, info]
  21. meretricious: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words [home, info]
  22. meretricious: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  23. meretricious: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  24. meretricious: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  25. meretricious: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  26. meretricious: Worthless Word For The Day [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. meretricious: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. meretricious: A Word A Day [home, info]
  2. meretricious: Wordcraft Dictionary [home, info]

Quick definitions (meretricious)

adjective:  like or relating to a prostitute ("Meretricious relationships")
adjective:  based on pretense; deceptively pleasing ("Meretricious praise")
adjective:  tastelessly showy ("A meretricious yet stylish book")

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Words similar to meretricious:   brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gilded, gimcrack, loud, meretriciously, meretriciousness, specious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy, more...


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