meretricious

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++mer·e·tri·cious /ˌmerəˈtrɪʃəs◂/ adjective formal  BADsomething that is meretricious seems attractive but has no real value or is not based on the truth 华而不实的，徒有其表的，花哨的 meretricious research 华而不实的研究 —meretriciousness noun [uncountable]

Examples from the Corpus

meretricious• Products range from the truly estimable and inspired to the merely pretty and, sometimes, meretricious.• a meretricious argument• He surfed big conditions with disdainful ease, a slightly meretricious casualness.• A more simplistic or more meretricious film would have played those two worlds against each other.• It's also curious how most of these groups have written at least one song about the meretricious lure of the capital.• A meretricious populism and pretentious sectarianism have between them squeezed out everything else.Origin meretricious (1600-1700) Latin meretricius, from meretrix “prostitute”, from merere; → MERIT1

mer·e·tri·cious adjectiveChineseSyllable  

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meretricious
mer‧e‧tri‧cious /ˌmerəˈtrɪʃəs◂, ˌmerɪˈtrɪʃəs◂/ adjective formalsomething that is meretricious seems attractive but has no real value or is not based on the truth:
    meretricious research
—meretriciousness noun [uncountable]

mere·tri·ciousBrE /ˌmerəˈtrɪʃəs/ 🔊NAmE /ˌmerəˈtrɪʃəs/ 🔊 adjective (formal) seeming attractive, but in fact having no real value 华而不实的；虚有其表的；金玉其外的