cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy
attracting by false show
like or relating to a prostitute
"meretricious relationships"
tastelessly showy
SYN - brassy, cheap, flashy, loud, tacky, trashy
"A meretricious yet stylish book"
based on pretense
SYN - gilded, specious
"A meretricious argument"
"He had a meretricious style that made him both repulsive and oddly attractive in her eyes."
"The movie had gotten such a high opening weekend because of the meretricious advertising campaign."
"She couldn't believe that he had fallen for such a meretricious girl, but she was confident that he would discover her true nature eventually."
"He had endured so many meretricious conversations that evening that when he stumbled upon this ingenuous discussion of love he was ecstatic."
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