Defenition of the word meretricious

• Defenition of the word meretricious

  • tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
  • based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"
  • (archaic) like or relating to a prostitute; "meretricious relationships"
  • like or relating to a prostitute; "meretricious relationships"
  • based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
  • tastelessly showy
  • like or relating to a prostitute

Synonyms for the word meretricious

• • brassy
  • cheap
  • flash
  • flashy
  • garish
  • gaudy
  • gilded
  • gimcrack
  • loud
  • specious
  • tacky
  • tatty
  • tawdry
  • trashy

Similar words in the meretricious

• • in poor taste
  • in poor taste(p)
  • insincere
  • tasteless

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