apparently attractive but in reality not having any value; tawdry (can be used on both physical and non-physical things)
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It is used to describe "claptrap or meretricious attempts to catch popular favor or applause." Occasionally gears were used between shafts to change speed rather than belts and different-sized pulleys, but this seems to have been relatively uncommon. These plugs are common on older fax machines and
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David Boughton
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https://open.substack.com/pub/brokenbottleboy/p/liddle-to-be-celebrated?r=6npd0&utm_medium=ios
Nicely written, Mic.
He was a meretricious foghorn of bile. Good riddance Rod
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Meretricious manifestations from the bastard love~child of Gollum and Liberace—
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