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English to English adjective
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like or relating to a prostitute |  | Example: meretricious relationships
source: wordnet30
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Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic. | | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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tastelessly showy | | Example: a flash car
a flashy ring
garish colors
a gaudy costume
loud sport shirts
a meretricious yet stylish book
tawdry ornaments
source: wordnet30
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based on pretense; deceptively pleasing | | Example: the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility
meretricious praise
a meretricious argument
source: wordnet30
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