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meretricious
Adjective
Meaning:
Tastelessly showy; based on pretense, deceptively pleasing; gaudy; falsely attractive; flashy and garish; apparently attractive but having no real value
Usage:
The common phrase “fake it until you make it” encourages one to be meretricious as you are pretending to be something that you aren’t
indefatigable
Adjective
Meaning:
Showing sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality; tireless; unflagging; incapable of being fatigued; untiring
Usage:
Smith is an indefatigable laborer who can work from sunrise to sunset
picayune
Adjective
Meaning:
Things that are small, trivial and unimportant that they are not worth getting into; of little value; paltry; petty, small minded; lilliputian; parochial
Usage:
You should not focus on the picayune details when it is the larger ideas that are the real concerns
probity
Noun
Meaning:
Being morally and ethically above reproach, having integrity; complete and confirmed integrity; having strong moral principles; uprightness
Usage:
- A person of indisputable probity must head the disciplinary panel
- The defense attorney questioned the probity of the witness
alacrity
Noun
Meaning:
Liveliness and eagerness; promptness in response; cheerful readiness
Usage:
- She accepted the invitation with alacrity
- He responded with smiling alacrity
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