GRE/oxford_api/json/1689_meretricious.json
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{"id": "meretricious", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "meretricious", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"derivatives": [{"id": "meretriciously", "text": "meretriciously"}, {"id": "meretriciousness", "text": "meretriciousness"}], "entries": [{"etymologies": ["early 17th century: from Latin meretricius (adjective from meretrix, meretric- \u2018prostitute\u2019, from mereri \u2018be hired\u2019) + -ous"], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/meretricious_gb_1_8.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "\u02ccm\u025br\u026a\u02c8tr\u026a\u0283\u0259s"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["apparently attractive but having no real value"], "examples": [{"text": "meretricious souvenirs for the tourist trade"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0634000.006", "shortDefinitions": ["apparently attractive but having no real value"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "flashy"}, {"language": "en", "text": "pretentious"}, {"language": "en", "text": "gaudy"}, {"language": "en", "text": "tawdry"}, {"language": "en", "text": "trashy"}, {"language": "en", "text": "garish"}, {"language": "en", "text": "chintzy"}, {"language": "en", "text": "Brummagem"}, {"language": "en", "text": "loud"}, {"language": "en", "text": "tinselly"}, {"language": "en", "text": "cheap"}, {"language": "en", "text": "tasteless"}, {"language": "en", "text": "kitschy"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "meretricious", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0009372.001"}]}, {"definitions": ["relating to or characteristic of a prostitute."], "id": "m_en_gbus0634000.009", "registers": [{"id": "archaic", "text": "Archaic"}], "shortDefinitions": ["relating to or characteristic of prostitute"]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "adjective", "text": "Adjective"}, "text": "meretricious"}], "type": "headword", "word": "meretricious"}], "word": "meretricious"}