Definition of meretricious
- attractive in a flashy but cheap or false way
Usage examples of meretricious
The lobby’s meretricious glamour came from plastic chandeliers and fake marble, not real quality.
The watch looked expensive from a distance, but its meretricious gold coating began peeling after a week.
The speech was meretricious: full of dramatic slogans, but empty of honest evidence or serious ideas.