a. | 1. | Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; |
2. | Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry; | |
3. | Deceptive or based on deception; seeming plausible, but based on pretense or insincerity; deceptive; misleading; insincere; specious; |
Adj. | 1. | meretricious - like or relating to a prostitute; "meretricious relationships" |
2. | meretricious - tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" | |
3. | meretricious - based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument" |