meretricious

(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
flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, tawdry, brassy, cheap, loud, tacky, tatty, trashy,
(s) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
- the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility
- meretricious praise
- a meretricious argument
gilded, specious,

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

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