meretricious
41meretriciousness — noun 1. an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility the speciousness of his argument • Syn: ↑speciousness • Derivationally related forms: ↑meretricious, ↑specious (for: ↑speciousness) …
42gaudy — I. adjective (gaudier; est) Date: 1582 1. ostentatiously or tastelessly ornamented 2. marked by extravagance or sometimes tasteless showiness ; outlandish < gaudy lies > < gaudy claims >; also exceptional …
43mer´e|tri´cious|ness — mer|e|tri|cious «MEHR uh TRIHSH uhs», adjective. 1. attractive in a showy way; alluring by false charms: »A wooden building painted to look like marble is meretricious. There is nothing showy or meretricious about the man (William Dean Howells).… …
44mer´e|tri´cious|ly — mer|e|tri|cious «MEHR uh TRIHSH uhs», adjective. 1. attractive in a showy way; alluring by false charms: »A wooden building painted to look like marble is meretricious. There is nothing showy or meretricious about the man (William Dean Howells).… …
45mer|e|tri|cious — «MEHR uh TRIHSH uhs», adjective. 1. attractive in a showy way; alluring by false charms: »A wooden building painted to look like marble is meretricious. There is nothing showy or meretricious about the man (William Dean Howells). The actual… …
46tragedy — /traj i dee/, n., pl. tragedies. 1. a dramatic composition, often in verse, dealing with a serious or somber theme, typically that of a great person destined through a flaw of character or conflict with some overpowering force, as fate or society …
47fraudulent — fraud·u·lent adj: characterized by, based on, or done by fraud compare deceptive, false, misleading fraud·u·lent·ly adv Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. M …
48tawdry — I adjective baroque, bedizened, blatant, brummagem, catchpenny, cheap, common, crass, crude, flashy, garish, gaudy, glaring, glittering, inelegant, loud, meretricious, ostentatious, pretentious, shoddy, showy, sleazy, tasteless, tinsel, vulgar II …
49tawdry — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. cheap, showy, flashy; loud, garish; tinsel, gimcrack. See vulgarity, ostentation. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. sleazy, showy, gaudy, garish, tacky*; see also common 1 , poor 2 . III (Roget s 3… …
50Deception — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Deception >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 deception deception Sgm: N 1 falseness falseness &c. 544 Sgm: N 1 untruth untruth &c. 546 Sgm: N 1 imposition imposition imposture Sgm: N 1 fraud …
