1. (

• meretricious

) like or relating to a prostitute; "meretricious relationships" ;

2. (

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

) tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" ;

3. (

• gilded ,
• meretricious ,
• specious ,
• glossy

) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument" ;