English to English
adjective
- like or relating to a prostitute
Meretricious relationships.
source: WordNet 3.0
- Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic.
source: Webster 1913
adjective satellite
- tastelessly showy
A flash car.
A flashy ring.
Garish colors.
A gaudy costume.
Loud sport shirts.
A meretricious yet stylish book.
Tawdry ornaments.
source: WordNet 3.0
- based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
The gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility.
Meretricious praise.
A meretricious argument.
source: WordNet 3.0
