eng: meretricious

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Meaning
means	(adjective) like or relating to a prostitute; "meretricious relationships" meretricious
means	(adjective) tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" brassy, tatty, flashy, gimcrack, trashy, tawdry, meretricious, tacky, flash, garish, cheap, loud, gaudy
means	(adjective) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument" gilded, specious, meretricious