- meretricious⇄adv. meretriciously.
- meretricious⇄meretricious, adjective.
1. attractive in a showy way; alluring by false charms.
Ex. A wooden building painted to look like marble is meretricious. There is nothing showy or meretricious about the man (William Dean Howells). The actual broadca - meretricious⇄noun meretriciousness.