meretricious

meretricious /,meri'triʃəs/
  • tính từ
    • đẹp giả tạo, đẹp bề ngoài; hào phóng
      • meretricious ornaments: đồ trang sức hào nhoáng
    • đàng điếm; (thuộc) gái điếm

Xem thêm: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy, gilded, specious



meretricious

Từ điển WordNet

    adj.

  • like or relating to a prostitute

    meretricious relationships

  • tastelessly showy; brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy

    a flash car

    a flashy ring

    garish colors

    a gaudy costume

    loud sport shirts

    a meretricious yet stylish book

    tawdry ornaments

  • based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; gilded, specious

    the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility

    meretricious praise

    a meretricious argument


English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary


syn.: brassy cheap flash flashy garish gaudy gilded gimcrack loud specious tacky tatty tawdry trashy