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adj. Attracting attention in a vulgar manner: meretricious ornamentation. See Synonyms at gaudy1.

adj. Plausible but false or insincere; specious: a meretricious argument.

adj. Of or relating to prostitutes or prostitution: meretricious relationships.

adj. Of, or relating to prostitutes or prostitution.

adj. Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having no substance; falsely alluring.

adj. Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful.

adj. Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry.

adj. Deceptive or based on deception; seeming plausible, but based on pretense or insincerity; deceptive; misleading; insincere; specious.

Of or pertaining to prostitutes; wanton; libidinous.

Alluring by false attractions; having a gaudy but deceitful appearance; tawdry; showy: as, meretricious dress or ornaments.

adj. based on pretense; deceptively pleasing

adj. tastelessly showy

adj. like or relating to a prostitute

"Also in the Telegraph, David Selbourne wields the bludgeon with tremendous style, although I'm going to have to look up 'meretricious'."

insincere    tasteless   

lustful    tawdry    deceptive    misleading    insincere    specious   

tawdry    flashy    showy    garish    character    inelegant    ostentatious    machine-made    half-indian    rhetorical