In the take-over of Labour by meretriciousness, its nonconformist traditions, rooted in the world of work, in mutual aid and self-improvement have largely gone. |
She felt that she was a living part of John's meretriciousness. |
True, Warhol caught the meretriciousness of late 20th-century life, and his repetitive paintings of dollar signs, for instance, could be construed as an indictment of our society's prime priority. |
Its walls were festooned with the products of meretriciousness, pseudo-intellectuality and fraud. |
There was a suggestion of meretriciousness in the tinted lips and the pretence of colour on the charming face. |
The meretriciousness of women and their love of luxury are denounced. |