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• a  like or relating to a prostitute
  meretricious relationships
• s  tastelessly showy
  a meretricious yet stylish book
• s  based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
  meretricious praise
  a meretricious argument

• Today, the Journal devotes the top 40% of its op-ed page to a meretricious piece of crap by Fred Barnes about the great success of the Republican Party's effort to block President .
• Plenty of nutballs go on television--as guests--and say all sorts of stupid, meretricious things.
• In one excerpt cited in the book, Trink describes the women as "meretricious, avaricious, mendacious and bone lazy.

• brassy
• cheap
• flash
• flashy
• garish
• gaudy
• gimcrack
• loud
• tacky
• tatty
• tawdry
• trashy
• gilded
• specious

News & Articles

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• Ga. Court Says Promise to Marry Is Enforceable
  The Georgia Court of Appeals rejected a man's defense that any promise he made to marry his live-in girlfriend wasn't enforceable because it was part of a meretricious relationship.
  Dec. 5, 2013 - Law.com

Quotes

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• Robert Fisk in Consortium News
  British journalist Robert Fisk called Pollack's book the "most meretricious contribution to this utterly fraudulent [war] 'debate' in the United States."
• Richard Holbrooke in guardian.co.uk
  Holbrooke described the article as "bullshit, meretricious and wrong. I'll be very clear. We are not proposing an international high representative," he told journalists in Brussels.
• Aneurin Bevan in Business Standard
  Bevan called "the so-called affluent society" ugly. "It is a meretricious society. Modern capitalism has not succeeded; it has failed."