apparently attractive but in reality not having any value; tawdry (can be used on both physical and non-physical things)
Matt Healy
@matthewdhealy.bsky.social
I just viewed a really thorough reply to Charlie Kirk's defenders. To be clear, his murder, like any murder, was abhorrent. But having been murdered doesn't make a racist, sexist, bigoted meretricious debater into a martyr. He wasn't a Nazi or Fascist, but many things he said really were appalling.
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Scry
@scry.blackrosebadger.com
Today in words that do NOT mean what I thought they meant (joining effluvium and meretricious): "effete". I thought it was, basically, a short form of effeminate. It is not!
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🤖 Machine Rhetorics Bot 🤖
@machinerhetorics.bsky.social
Here Sutra refers to a collection of aphorism in the form of a manual. It is used to describe "claptrap or meretricious attempts to catch popular favor or applause." : 38–39  Logos is also related to the rational appeal that speakers use to persuade their audience through the usage of
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