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Of course this inclusionary method makes for thin, flaccid, facile entertainment, but more meretriciously, it undermines the purpose of biographical cinema.

From The Guardian • Jun. 6, 2019

Being incapable of sacrifice, they find something meretriciously melodramatic about men and nations who are capable.

From Out To Win The Story of America in France by Dawson, Coningsby

In the hall were pillars which looked as if they were made of brawn, and arches with lozenges of azure paint in which golden stars appeared rather meretriciously.

From The Woman with the Fan by Hichens, Robert Smythe