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# Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/word-of-the-day-1489/
- Published: 2019-06-22T18:15:18.000Z
- Updated: 2019-07-08T04:44:38.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: Blog, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 04:14

The word for today is…

meretricious (adj) – 1\. (a) Attracting attention in a vulgar manner.  
(b) Plausible but false or insincere; specious.  
2\. Of or relating to prostitutes or prostitution.

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/meretricious?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : 1620s, “pertaining to harlots,” from Latin meretricius “of or pertaining to prostitutes,” from meretrix (genitive meretricis) “prostitute,” literally “woman who earns money,” from merere, mereri “to earn, gain” (from PIE root \*(s)mer “to get a share of something”). Meaning “gaudily alluring, alluring by false attractions” is from 1630s.