• adj.
    ⦿based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
    lexical concept
  • a meretricious argument
  • meretricious praise
  • the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechadjective satellite
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:gilded
  2. enl:glossy
  3. enl:meretricious
  4. enl:specious
wn:interlingual indexili:i11995

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • meretriciousspecious
  • gildedglossymeretriciousspecious