meritricious

In all of this it varies from the American meritricious ideal.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Getting it Right 2009

Michael B:In all of this it varies from the American meritricious ideal.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Getting it Right 2009

When faced with a book hyped to the rafters, one which on closer examination, you consider meritricious tripe, there are questions that might well be asked about why this piece of garbage is being lauded.

Archive 2006-06-01 Hal Duncan 2006

There might also, to be fair, be questions to ask oneself about why you consider it meritricious tripe, if you yourself are not, perhaps, maybe, possibly, reacting to that hype, no?

Hype Hype Hoorah! Hal Duncan 2006

When faced with a book hyped to the rafters, one which on closer examination, you consider meritricious tripe, there are questions that might well be asked about why this piece of garbage is being lauded.

Hype Hype Hoorah! Hal Duncan 2006

There might also, to be fair, be questions to ask oneself about why you consider it meritricious tripe, if you yourself are not, perhaps, maybe, possibly, reacting to that hype, no?

Archive 2006-06-01 Hal Duncan 2006

Define meritricious; prognathic; banal; vulpine; camaraderie; vilification; ennui; quixotic; naïve; pharisaism.

Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day Various

And that counsel devised in heaven to deceive and mislead Achab [133]; and those mundane and meritricious passions of the

Dionysius the Areopagite, Works (1897) Dionysius the Areopagite 1897

In passing it may be remarked that neither corridors nor rooms evinced any of that cleanliness and purity which marked the exterior of the building, for such attributes were not troubled about within, and anything that was dirty remained so, and donned no meritricious, purely external, disguise.

Dead Souls 1842

If I have been so unfortunate as to win what your lovely sister might more justly claim, it has been by the exercise of no base allurement or meritricious attractions.

Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author Caroline Lee Hentz 1828