Adjective meretricious has 3 senses
- meretricious - like or relating to a prostitute; "meretricious relationships"
- 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"
Antonyms: tasteful, in good taste (indirect, via tasteless)
- gilded, meretricious, specious - based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"
Antonym: sincere (indirect, via insincere)
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