meretricious

Adjective
  1. Like or relating to a prostitute (synset 302774456)
    "meretricious relationships"
    domain usage: archaicism, archaism - the use of an archaic expression
  2. Tastelessly showy (synset 302402358)
    "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
    similar to: tasteless - lacking aesthetic or social taste
    same as: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy
  3. Based on pretense;
    Deceptively pleasing (synset 302189932)
    "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"
    similar to: insincere - lacking sincerity
    same as: gilded, glossy, specious

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