like or relating to a prostitute; meretricious relationships'

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 ]

based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility; meretricious praise; a meretricious argument

[ Syn: gilded , specious ]