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But then few of us are sufficiently confident that we've adequately expressed how much we value our parents over the years to feel able pointedly to reject an obvious opportunity to do so again, however meretriciously it's advertised.

David Mitchell: Do your bit for Britain and send gifts to people you don't like very much 2011

But then few of us are sufficiently confident that we've adequately expressed how much we value our parents over the years to feel able pointedly to reject an obvious opportunity to do so again, however meretriciously it's advertised.

David Mitchell: Do your bit for Britain and send gifts to people you don't like very much 2011

Yikes, an indescribable mp3 meretriciously ground because of one gaudy Book.

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Seldom has self-imposed victimhood been exploited so meretriciously as it is here.

Matt Osborne: Sarahpalooza! 2009

Thus events which some saw as catastrophic for all Britons were at best glibly and meretriciously dealt with and at worst by standing truth and history on their heads.

Archive 2007-06-03 2007

So, the meretriciously flexible category called “hate speech” now includes blasphemy as well as actual targeted insults.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Jesus Christ! 2009

Since other countries could conceivably, if meretriciously, argue that the British had, by rejecting it, effectively voted themselves out of the Union, this line of argument could make influential converts, not least in the City.

Treaty to test the strongest constitution Richard 2004

Being incapable of sacrifice, they find something meretriciously melodramatic about men and nations who are capable.

Out To Win The Story of America in France Coningsby Dawson 1921

There was about him that sense of secret power that only politicians, usually meretriciously, and diplomats, and, above all, great bankers as a rule possess; yet he seldom talked of his own life, or the mission that had brought him to

The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

In the hall were pillars which looked as if they were made of brawn, and arches with lozenges of azure paint in which golden stars appeared rather meretriciously.

The Woman with the Fan Robert Smythe Hichens 1907