meretricious English

Meaning meretricious meaning

What does meretricious mean?

meretricious

— adjective like or relating to a prostitute meretricious relationships

— adjective (= gilded) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility meretricious praise a meretricious argument

— adjective (= flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, loud, tawdry) tastelessly showy a flash car a flashy ring garish colors a gaudy costume loud sport shirts a meretricious yet stylish book tawdry ornaments

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meretricious English » English

gaudy

garish

tawdry

flashy

trashy

tatty

tacky

spurious

specious

showy

ostentatious

loud

gimcrack

gilded

for show

flash

cheap

brassy

whorish

wanton

unchaste

unauthentic

swanky

sporty

show off

sham

seductive

prim

pretentious

obscene

indecent

inauthentic

hokey

flossy

flamboyant

false

dashing

cheapjack

bastard

artificial