Meretricious vs Trumpery - What's the difference?
meretricious | trumpery |
(obsolete) Of, or relating to prostitutes or prostitution.
Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having in reality no value or substance; falsely alluring.
* , chapter=10
, title= * 2006 , (Clive James), North Face of Soho , Picador 2007, p. 164:
worthless finery; bric-a-brac or junk
* 1610 , , act 4 scene 1
nonsense
* South
(obsolete) deceit; fraud
gaudy but of no value
* 1954 , Anthony Buckeridge, According to Jennings
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between meretricious and trumpery
is that meretricious is (obsolete) of, or relating to prostitutes or prostitution while trumpery is (obsolete) deceit; fraud.As adjectives the difference between meretricious and trumpery
is that meretricious is (obsolete) of, or relating to prostitutes or prostitution while trumpery is gaudy but of no value.As a noun trumpery is
worthless finery; bric-a-brac or junk.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.
Synonyms
* (tastelessly showy) brassy, cheap, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashytrumpery
English
Noun
(trumperies)- (Prospero, to Ariel)
- This was well done, my bird.
- Thy shape invisible retain thou still:
- The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither
- For stale to catch these thieves.
- Upon the coming of Christ, very much, though not all, of this idolatrous trumpery and superstition was driven out of the world.
- (Grenewey)
Adjective
(-)- “Of all the trumpery moonshine!” Mr Wilkins exploded. “What do you think you're playing at, Jennings!”