meretricious (
http://definr.com/meretricious)
adj 1: (archaic) like or relating to a prostitute; "meretricious
relationships"
2: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish
colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a
meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn:
brassy,
cheap,
flash,
flashy,
garish,
gaudy,
gimcrack,
loud,
tacky,
tatty,
tawdry,
trashy]
3: based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and
perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious
praise"; "a meretricious argument" [syn:
gilded,
specious]