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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 .
The Kiss has been called "slimy, repellent, meretricious, cynical" by Jonathan Yardley in the Washington Post , and things to that effect by sundry others.
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.
Indeed, a sophistical argument could be made that his films, while meretricious, are always at least mildly entertaining.