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meretricious
Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having in reality no value or substance; falsely alluring.
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He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
(law) Involving unlawful sexual connection or lack of consent by at least one party (said of a romantic relationship).
(obsolete) Of, or relating to prostitutes or prostitution.
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