Meretricious

apparently attractive but in reality not having any value; tawdry (can be used on both physical and non-physical things)

Jeff Yasuke

Jeff Yasuke

@panchovillian.bsky.social

Stillness, mercy, & grace for those unduly maimed, abused, and exploited -- their trauma schemas moved into the meretricious hearts who need to be shaken trembling into accountability and redemption

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Prof Bob Davis

Prof Bob Davis

@rokewood.bsky.social

How was such an assembly of British acting talent induced into making this cliched, meretricious, infantile, narcissistic & class-stereotyped farrago, where every new character—young & old—is more morally crippled than those from the scene before? #Adultery 🤮

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russ cavanagh

russ cavanagh

@russcavanagh.bsky.social

"Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity." Ecclesiastes 12:8 #KJV

A 75-word #microfiction dedicated to the meretricious:
manmadeflash.blogspot.com/2026/10/pret...

#FlashLit #VSS #WritingLife #Humour

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