Synonyms for meretricious
ˌmɛr ɪˈtrɪʃ əsmere·tri·cious

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1. meretriciousadjective

   Synonyms:
   tatty, trashy, tawdry, tacky, gaudy, garish, flashy, cheap, gimcrack, brassy

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1. meretricious

   Synonyms:
   clumsy, coarse, deformed, disgusting, displeasing, distasteful, fulsome, gaudy, grotesque, harsh, hideous, horrid, inartistic, inharmonious, offensive, rough, rude, rugged, tawdry

   Antonyms:
   artistic, chaste, dainty, delicate, delicious, elegant, esthetic, esthetical, exquisite, fastidious, fine, nice, tasteful, tasty

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1. meretricious

   Synonyms:
   tricksy, unchaste, gaudy, impure, tawdry, flashy

   Antonyms:
   solid, good, chaste, simple, pure

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1. meretriciousadjective

   like or relating to a prostitute

   "meretricious relationships"

   Synonyms:
   gilded, flashy, tawdry, cheap, specious, tacky, flash, gimcrack, tatty, garish, brassy, trashy, loud, gaudy

   Antonyms:
   tasteful, sincere

2. brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashyadjective

   tastelessly showy

   "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"

   Synonyms:
   forte, crummy, brazen, brazen-faced, chintzy, ratty, audacious, specious, loud, punk, shabby, flashy, jazzy, cheapjack, bodacious, inexpensive, tinny, bum, cheap, sleazy, trashy, brassy, insolent, gaudy, garish, tatty, shoddy, sporty, cheesy, tawdry, brasslike, moth-eaten, bald-faced, barefaced, gimcrack, chinchy, flash, showy, tacky, gilded, rubbishy

   Antonyms:
   sincere, tasteful

3. gilded, meretricious, speciousadjective

   based on pretense; deceptively pleasing

   "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"

   Synonyms:
   tawdry, flashy, garish, gilded, luxurious, gimcrack, tacky, aureate, trashy, golden, flash, spurious, sumptuous, loud, brassy, cheap, princely, specious, gold, grand, deluxe, tatty, gaudy, gilt, opulent

   Antonyms:
   sincere, tasteful

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1. meretriciousadjective

   Synonyms:
   of harlots

2. meretriciousadjective

   Synonyms:
   libidinous, lustful

3. meretriciousadjective

   Synonyms:
   deceitful (by false show), spurious, false, sham, make-believe, not genuine

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1. Frederick Douglas:

   It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect.