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Poll: 'Meretricious' means...

'Meretricious' means...

1) deserving, worthy
2) showily but falsely attractive
3) of or befitting a prostitute
All of these
1 & 2
1 & 3
2 & 3

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This Poll:

  • Votes: 403
  • Comments: 2
  • Added: June 2004

Comments:

rhapsomatrics

..it is incontrovertible...the word betokens a thing that costs much but has little or no value...something like "white elephant"

BIRBAL JHA

meretricious means seeming attractive but thatis not fact

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