bees stung with desire by the meretricious scent of female bees

Szmura would sometimes bring home a woman—he had an unmistakable taste for the meretricious kind

a whole new generation who cannot remember alternatives to "marketplace" meretriciousness is coming to fruition, and that, surely, has an effect on how younger people view what Art (and people) are

'Meretricious. That's the word I'd use, if asked.'

a forgotten poet who wrote bad, meretricious verse at some time

her multisyllabic mewing sounds were stagy, meretricious

all of this convinced him that he had come to that revolting refuge where pitiful debauchery has made its home base, debauchery engendered by the meretricious civilization and terrible overpopulation of the capital city

offered in the most piking and meretricious traffic millions of times a day

although disdainful of the meretricious vices he found in most novels, he was at the same time extremely diffident about the merits of his own.

it is with something of a shudder that I recall the meretricious imitation she gave of reaching her vocal climax

Its utter mediocrity was stressed by the fraudulent chic of alliterations and the meretricious richness of illiterate rhymes.

even his meretricious films, like Network