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meretricious
showily attractive but actually cheap or insincere
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Questions about “meretricious”
Meretricious (adjective) means showily attractive but actually cheap or insincere
Here is meretricious used in an example sentence: "The ad's meretricious glamour disguised a shoddy product."
Common synonyms for meretricious include gaudy, tawdry, flashy, specious.
Antonyms of meretricious include genuine, tasteful, sincere.
Meretricious is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.
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