Meretricious vs Bombastic - What's the difference?
meretricious | bombastic |
(obsolete) Of, or relating to prostitutes or prostitution.
Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having in reality no value or substance; falsely alluring.
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showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous
High-sounding but with little meaning.
(archaic) Inflated, overfilled.
As adjectives the difference between meretricious and bombastic
is that meretricious is (obsolete) of, or relating to prostitutes or prostitution while bombastic is showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms; grandiloquent; pompous.meretricious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}}
- When I lifted my eyes from the page, there was none of the meretricious argument London always offers that the sole real purpose in life is to hustle for a buck.