Meritorious vs. Meretricious

Meritoriousadjective

Deserving of merit or commendation; deserving reward.

Meritoriousadjective

Possessing merit; deserving of reward or honor; worthy of recompense; valuable.

Meritoriousadjective

deserving reward or praise;

Meritoriousadjective

deserving reward or praise

Meritoriousadjective

(of an action or claim) likely to succeed on the merits of the case

Meretriciousadjective

Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having in reality no value or substance; falsely alluring.

Meretriciousadjective

(legal) Involving unlawful sexual connection or lack of consent by at least one party (said of a romantic relationship)

Meretriciousadjective

(obsolete) Of, or relating to prostitutes or prostitution.

Meretriciousadjective

Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic.

Meretriciousadjective

Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry; as, meretricious dress or ornaments.

Meretriciousadjective

Deceptive or based on deception; seeming plausible, but based on pretense or insincerity; deceptive; misleading; insincere; specious; as, meretricious arguments.

Meretriciousadjective

like or relating to a prostitute;

Meretriciousadjective

tastelessly showy;

Meretriciousadjective

based on pretense; deceptively pleasing;