meretriciousness

But she looked sad, more real than Ella had ever seen her, all the meretriciousness, the desperate girlishness, gone.

Portobello Ruth Rendell 2010

In the Clintons 'orbit, meretriciousness is as reflexive as a sneeze, and reflexes are not moral failures.

Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Hillary Personally Slams Obama Over Reagan Comments 2009

In the Clintons 'orbit, meretriciousness is as reflexive as a sneeze, and reflexes are not moral failures.

Hillary Personally Slams Obama Over Reagan Comments 2009

But there was a meretriciousness to the speech tonight that I find deeply troubling, particularly in the use of beautiful words and cadences to slide past the underlying reality.

Mayhill Fowler: A Few Small Questions About Obama's Afghanistan Surge 2009

The striver may wind up with the bigger house, better car and nicer vacations, but the very meretriciousness of these aspirations confirms the liberal arts major's belief in the striver's inferior taste and barren inner life.

The Roots of Liberal Condescension 2009

History will judge those whose meretriciousness, though partly obscured now by the fog of war and passionate debate, will be all to obvious to future generations.

Why The Media Lavishes Coverage On Pollack And O'Hanlon 2009

Given the old, unattractive ideas and dishonest claims of McCain/Palin, I'd say Obama's fault is in not speaking more directly and unambiguously to the meretriciousness of their rhetoric.

"You know, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called 'change,' it’s still gonna stink." Ann Althouse 2008

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.

Archive 2005-05-22 Laban 2005

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.

Even More Respect ... Laban 2005

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.

May 22, 2005 Laban 2005