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based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility; meretricious praise; a meretricious argument
(adj) loud, cheap, brassy, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy, gimcrack
tastelessly showy
a flash car; a flashy ring; garish colors; a gaudy costume; loud sport shirts; a meretricious yet stylish book; tawdry ornaments