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In this confusing language of ours noisome doesn't mean `noisy,' meretricious is anything but meritorious, penultimate is less ultimate than ultimate , but invaluable is more valuable than valuable .
Their meretricious charms have proved all too attractive to us, especially for those who want to live out a Sleepless in Seattle fantasy lifestyle in Wapping or Wolverhampton.
And it's not easy to be a First Amendment person, because then you have to allow into this marketplace that which you believe to be soiling and meretricious and tawdry and unwholesome and sometimes vile.
The Kiss has been called "slimy, repellent, meretricious, cynical" by Jonathan Yardley in the Washington Post , and things to that effect by sundry others.
Indeed, a sophistical argument could be made that his films, while meretricious, are always at least mildly entertaining.