meretricious

Adjective

• based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
  • the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility
    
  • meretricious praise
    
  • a meretricious argument
    

• tastelessly showy
  • a flash car
    
  • a flashy ring
    
  • garish colors
    
  • a gaudy costume
    
  • loud sport shirts
    
  • a meretricious yet stylish book
    
  • tawdry ornaments
    

• like or relating to a prostitute
  • meretricious relationships
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  gilded , specious