He described her as meretricious, unworthy, heartless and ungrateful. Remarkably, he is as much himself in the cheerfully meretricious and the pretentiously serious. "The Times" wrote, "The satiric point disappears in meretricious ado and humourless humour". The men spot McCormick in the central plaza, promenading with his meretricious mistress. He wrote&colon; "Outnumbered" was at its most meretricious. Artistically, the films in question range from the majestic to the meretricious.