Open English Wordnet
Adjectives
(a)meretriciouslike or relating to a prostitute“meretricious relationships” (s)brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashytastelessly showy“a flash car”,
“a flashy ring”,
“garish colors”,
“a gaudy costume”,
“loud sport shirts”,
“a meretricious yet stylish book”,
“tawdry ornaments” (s)gilded, meretricious, specious, glossybased on pretense; deceptively pleasing“the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility”,
“meretricious praise”,
“a meretricious argument”