Meretricious
[adj] based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"
[adj] tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
[adj] (archaic) like or relating to a prostitute; "meretricious relationships"
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Synonyms
brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gilded, gimcrack, in poor taste(p), insincere, loud, specious, tacky, tasteless, tatty, tawdry, trashy
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affected, apparent, bedizened, beggarly, beneath contempt, big-sounding, blatant, brazen, brazenfaced, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, coarse, colorable, colored, colorful, common, contemptible, convoluted, crass, crude, crummy, deceptive, declamatory, delusive,