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meretricious

English

  1. 🔊 like or relating to a prostitute
    “meretricious relationships”
  2. 🔊 based on pretense
    “the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility”
  3. 🔊 tastelessly showy
    “a flash car”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 rimbombante meretricious, flamboyant, highfalutin, flashy, showy, ostentatious

Similar words

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