Usually means: Attractively flashy but inherently valueless.
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  1. meretricious: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. meretricious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. meretricious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. meretricious: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. meretricious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. meretricious: Wiktionary
  9. meretricious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. meretricious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. meretricious: Infoplease Dictionary
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  13. meretricious: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Meretricious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. meretricious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. meretricious: Rhymezone
  17. Meretricious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. meretricious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. meretricious: Free Dictionary
  20. meretricious: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. meretricious: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. meretricious: A Word A Day
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  1. meretricious: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having in reality no value or substance; falsely alluring.
▸ adjective:  (law) Involving unlawful sexual connection or lack of consent by at least one party (said of a romantic relationship).
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Of, or relating to prostitutes or prostitution.

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garish, flashy, gaudy, insincere, gimcrack, loud, trashy, cheap, specious, tasteless, more...

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ostentatious, pretentious, artificial, sham, shoddy, tawdry, gaudy, flashy, more...

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Similar:
garish, flashy, gaudy, insincere, gimcrack, loud, trashy, cheap, specious, tasteless, more...

Types:
ostentatious, pretentious, artificial, sham, shoddy, tawdry, gaudy, flashy, more...

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     neon pink,     neon green,     neon yellow, more...



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