meretricious

Now that Laura has been revealed to be little more than a collection of notes, the debate seems silly, meretricious.

Then the mask is taken off, meretricious ornaments are dispensed with, and consequently native qualities appear.

But to-night her now hateful, meretricious image rose, with horrid vividness, before him.

As in everything that Seguin has painted, there was undoubtedly a certain meretricious beauty and force about it.

A pintura de la Feria became a term in Spain for a meretricious picture.

The people are already beginning to distinguish between the wholesome and the meretricious in their newspapers.