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meretricious    
a. 华丽而庸俗的,俗气的,娼妓的

华丽而庸俗的,俗气的,娼妓的

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

Meretricious \Mer`e*tri"cious\, a. [L. meretricius, from
meretrix, -icis, a prostitute, lit., one who earns money, i.
e., by prostitution, fr. merere to earn, gain. See {Merit}.]
1. Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with
harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic.
[1913 Webster]

2. Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show;
gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry; as,
meretricious dress or ornaments.
[1913 Webster]

3. Deceptive or based on deception; seeming plausible, but
based on pretense or insincerity; deceptive; misleading;
insincere; specious; as, meretricious arguments.
[PJC] -- {Mer`e*tri"cious*ly}, adv. --
{Mer`e*tri"cious*ness}, n.
[1913 Webster]

137 Moby Thesaurus words for "meretricious":
Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, apparent, bedizened, beggarly,
beneath contempt, big-sounding, blatant, brazen, brazenfaced,
cheap, cheesy, chintzy, coarse, colorable, colored, colorful,
common, contemptible, convoluted, crass, crude, crummy, deceptive,
declamatory, delusive, delusory, despicable, earthy, elevated,
euphuistic, extravagant, fallen, flagrant, flamboyant, flaming,
flaring, flashy, flaunting, fulsome, garish, gaudy, gilded,
gimcracky, glaring, gorgeous, grandiloquent, grandiose,
grandisonant, gross, harlot, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying,
high-sounding, highfalutin, hustling, inkhorn, insincere,
labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, loud, lurid, magniloquent, mean,
miserable, misleading, obscene, obtrusive, on the, on the town,
orotund, ostensible, ostentatious, overdone, overelaborate,
overinvolved, overwrought, paltry, pathetic, pave, pedantic,
pitiable, pitiful, plausible, pompous, poor, pretentious,
prostitute, prostituted, raw, rhetorical, ribald, rough, rubbishy,
rude, sad, scarlet, screaming, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy,
scuzzy, seeming, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious,
shabby, shameless, shoddy, showy, sonorous, sorry, specious,
spectacular, spurious, stilted, streetwalking, tall, tawdry,
tinsel, tortuous, trashy, trumpery, two-for-a-cent,
two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, valueless, vile,
vulgar, whorish, worthless, wretched


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