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Sunday, August 19, 2012

251. Meretricious


Excerpt from, "India's Olympic Achievement: Indiffference," by Theodore Dalrymple, The Wall Street Journal, 8/18/12:

 Woe betide the British person who dares to suggest that his country's excellent performance at the Games wasn't a sign of national regeneration but of national frivolity and meretriciousness to which its population and its leaders now turn as naturally as some flowers turn to sun.


Meretricious:  apparently attractive but having in reality no value or integrity
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