meretricious in WordNet English dictionary

1. tastelessly showy
   "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
   brassy  cheap  flash  flashy  garish  gaudy  gimcrack  loud  meretricious  tacky  tatty  tawdry  trashy 
   
2. based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
   "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"
   gilded  meretricious  specious 
   
3. like or relating to a prostitute
   "meretricious relationships"
   meretricious