meretricious

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meretricious Definition

• (a) like or relating to a prostitute; "meretricious relationships"
• (s) tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
• (s) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"

meretricious Synonyms

• brassy
• cheap
• flash
• flashy
• garish
• gaudy
• gilded
• gimcrack
• loud
• meretricious
• specious
• tacky
• tatty
• tawdry
• trashy