Definition of "meretriciousness" [mer•e•tri•cious•ness]

• The property of being meretricious. (noun)

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• "But she looked sad, more real than Ella had ever seen her, all the meretriciousness, the desperate girlishness, gone."
• "In the Clintons 'orbit, meretriciousness is as reflexive as a sneeze, and reflexes are not moral failures."
• "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."