All meretricious synonyms
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M m adjective meretricious
- plausible — having an appearance of truth or reason; seemingly worthy of approval or acceptance; credible; believable: a plausible excuse; a plausible plot.
- specious — apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
- glib — readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely so: a glib talker; glib answers.
- persuasive — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
- deceiving — Present participle of deceive.
- false — not true or correct; erroneous: a false statement.
- deceptive — If something is deceptive, it encourages you to believe something which is not true.
- flashy — sparkling or brilliant, especially in a superficial way or for the moment: a flashy performance.
- gaudy — brilliantly or excessively showy: gaudy plumage.
- vulgar — characterized by ignorance of or lack of good breeding or taste: vulgar ostentation.
- flash — a precedence code for handling messages about initial enemy contact or operational combat messages of extreme urgency within the U.S. military.
- glitzy — pretentiously or tastelessly showy: a glitzy gown.
- kitschy — something of tawdry design, appearance, or content created to appeal to popular or undiscriminating taste.
adj meretricious
- blatant — You use blatant to describe something bad that is done in an open or very obvious way.
- bogus — If you describe something as bogus, you mean that it is not genuine.
- brazen — If you describe a person or their behaviour as brazen, you mean that they are very bold and do not care what other people think about them or their behaviour.
- chintzy — Something that is chintzy is decorated or covered with chintz.
- counterfeit — Counterfeit money, goods, or documents are not genuine, but have been made to look exactly like genuine ones in order to deceive people.
- garish — crudely or tastelessly colorful, showy, or elaborate, as clothes or decoration.
- glaring — shining with or reflecting a harshly bright or brilliant light.
- insincere — not sincere; not honest in the expression of actual feeling; hypocritical.
- loud — (of sound) strongly audible; having exceptional volume or intensity: loud talking; loud thunder; loud whispers.
- misleading — deceptive; tending to mislead.
- ornate — elaborately or sumptuously adorned, often excessively or showily so: They bought an ornate Louis XIV sofa.
- phony — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
- plastic — Often, plastics. any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened, including many types of resins, resinoids, polymers, cellulose derivatives, casein materials, and proteins: used in place of other materials, as glass, wood, and metals, in construction and decoration, for making many articles, as coatings, and, drawn into filaments, for weaving. They are often known by trademark names, as Bakelite, Vinylite, or Lucite.
- sham — something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
- showy — making an imposing display: showy flowers.
- spurious — not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.
- superficial — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
- tawdry — (of finery, trappings, etc.) gaudy; showy and cheap.
- trashy — of the nature of trash; inferior in quality; rubbishy; useless or worthless.
- put-on — an act or instance of putting someone on.
- tinsel — a glittering metallic substance, as copper or brass, in thin sheets, used in pieces, strips, threads, etc., to produce a sparkling effect cheaply.