Example Sentences

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But no matter what Ben did, his efforts were matched by the unmeretricious competence of Wyatt Sanders.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Titian's courtesans are our archetypes of dignified womanhood; we might fancy Portia or Isabella with such calm, florid beauty, so wholly unmeretricious and uncankered.

From Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. I by Lee, Vernon