The definition of the word meretricious is apparently attractive but having in reality no value or integrity. For example: The souvenirs at the airport were meretricious.
Attracting attention in a vulgar manner.
The girl thought her outfit was flattering, when in actuality it was meretricious.
Good Lord, that day-glo green seashell hula doll is meretricious!
Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic., Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry; as, meretricious dress or ornaments.
That word is a tongue twister in of itself.
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No. "Meretorious" means "worthy of praise, valuable". "Meretricious" means "cheaply gaudy", like the way Lady GaGa dresses.
He had a pleasant smile, and he spoke so well, but something about his demeanour, to me at least, made him meretricious - it turned out he was a compulsive liar.
flagitious, judicious, lubricious, malicious, Mauritius, meretricious, nutritious, officious, pernicious...............
Some choices: brazen, tawdry, showy, ornate, blatant, meretricious, gaudy
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