meretricious (adj.)
- affected
- apparent
- beggarly
- blatant
- brazen
- cheap
- cheesy
- chintzy
- coarse
- colored
- colorful
- common
- contemptible
- convoluted
- crass
- crude
- crummy
- deceptive
- declamatory
- delusive
- delusory
- despicable
- earthy
- elevated
- extravagant
- fallen
- flagrant
- flamboyant
- flaming
- flaring
- flashy
- fulsome
- garish
- gaudy
- gilded
- glaring
- gorgeous
- grandiloquent
- grandiose
- gross
- high-flown
- high-sounding
- highfalutin
- insincere
- labyrinthine
- lofty
- loud
- lurid
- magniloquent
- mean
- miserable
- misleading
- obscene
- obtrusive
- orotund
- ostensible
- ostentatious
- overdone
- overwrought
- paltry
- pathetic
- pedantic
- pitiable
- pitiful
- plausible
- pompous
- poor
- pretentious
- raw
- rhetorical
- ribald
- rough
- rubbishy
- rude
- sad
- scarlet
- screaming
- scrubby
- scruffy
- scummy
- scurvy
- seeming
- sensational
- sensationalistic
- sententious
- shabby
- shameless
- shoddy
- showy
- sonorous
- sorry
- specious
- spectacular
- spurious
- stilted
- tall
- tawdry
- tortuous
- trashy
- twopenny
- twopenny-halfpenny
- valueless
- vile
- vulgar
- worthless
- wretched
