meretricious in a sentence

Examples

1. It's at this point that a merely gory and meretricious movie turns stupid.
2. He does ramp things up one notch here, from mediocre incoherence to meretricious incoherence.
3. Success threw her into a depression because she knew how meretricious most of her films were.
4. He was later awarded the Britannia Trophy for the most meretricious British flight of the year.
5. It can lead to doleful cultural consequences as a bland, meretricious populism displaces more subtle aspirations.
6. Meretricious agents of the Kaiser were stationed at such places as Marble Arch and Hyde Park Corner.
7. He is said to have replied instantly, " Meretricious and a Happy New Year ."
8. But he also recognized the " vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty " of those gestures.
9. Perhaps the real task for all of us is to reject the meretricious values that have shaped us.
10. You have to allow tawdry, meretricious, soiling, loathsome, even unwholesome stuff into the marketplace.