tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"一目を引く趣味悪さの毳毳しい
例:a meretricious yet stylish book けばけばしい装飾の、しかし上品な本
based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"見せかけに基づくあくどい
例:a meretricious argument 俗悪な論議
like or relating to a prostitute; "meretricious relationships"売春婦のように、または、それに関してあくどい