apparently attractive but in reality not having any value; tawdry (can be used on both physical and non-physical things)
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
> Man cannot live without hope. If it is not engendered by his own convictions and desires, it can easily be fired from without, and by the most meretricious and empty of promises.
**Eleanor Roosevelt** (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician […]
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billbindc
@billbindc.bsky.social
Especially, gallingly meretricious as this is a far bigger defeat than Afghanistan:
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🏳️🌈 🍉 Chuck Hamilton (he/him/his) 🏴☠️🍸
@natty4bumpo.bsky.social
Very meretricious.
I call it 'nouveau-riche no account white trash' style.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/apr/03/donald-trump-presidential-library-gaudy-monstrosity-architecture-bling
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