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ลองค้นหาคำในรูปแบบอื่น ๆ เพื่อให้ได้ผลลัพธ์มากขึ้นหรือน้อยลง: -meretricious-, *meretricious*, meretriciou
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English-Thai: NECTEC's Lexitron-2 Dictionary [with local updates]
meretricious(adj) น่าดึงดูดใจแต่เพียงภายนอก, See also: หรูหราแต่เพียงภายนอก, Syn. tawdry, garish, gaudy, showy, flashy
meretricious(adj) หลอกลวง, See also: เสแสร้ง, Syn. spurious, sham, false, pretentious, Ant. true
meretricious(adj) ซึ่งเป็นกริยาท่าทางของโสเภณี
meretriciously(adv) อย่างหลอกลวง
meretriciousness(n) ความหลอกลวง

English-Thai: HOPE Dictionary [with local updates]
meretricious(เมอริทริช'เชิส) adj. บาดตา, ฉูดฉาดและหรูหราแต่ไม่มีราคา, หลอกลวง, ไม่จริงใจ, แพศยา, ชั่วช้า., See also: meretriciousness n., Syn. tawdry

English-Thai: Nontri Dictionary
meretricious(adj) บาดตา, ฉูดฉาด, หลอกลวง, แพศยา, ไม่จริงใจ

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Meretricious."เสแสร้ง" The Perfect Storm (2010)
It's about getting into college. Meretricious.ก็ท่องเพื่อให้ได้เข้ามหาลัย "เสแสร้ง"... The Perfect Storm (2010)

Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary (pronunciation guide only)
meretricious
meretriciously
meretriciousness

WordNet (3.0)
meretricious(adj) like or relating to a prostitute
meretriciously(adv) in a meretricious manner, Syn. flashily

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
Meretricious

a. [ L. meretricius, from meretrix, -icis, a prostitute, lit., one who earns money, i. e., by prostitution, fr. merere to earn, gain. See Merit. ] 1. Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry; as, meretricious dress or ornaments. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

-- Mer`e*tri"cious*ly, adv. -- Mer`e*tri"cious*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

meretriciousness

n. 1. an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility.
Syn. -- speciousness. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. tasteless showiness.
Syn. -- flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, loudness, tawdriness, glitz. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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