SPECIOUS vs MERETRICIOUS: ADJECTIVE
- Based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
- Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually fallacious.
- Deceptively appealing.
- Plausible but false
- Presenting a pleasing appearance; pleasing in form or look; showy.
- Apparently right; superficially fair, just, or correct, but not so in reality; appearing well at first view; plausible
- Having an attractive appearance intended to generate a favorable response; deceptively attractive.
- Beautiful, pleasing to look at.
- Seemingly well-reasoned or factual, but actually fallacious or insincere; strongly held but false.
- Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having no substance; falsely alluring.
- Deceptive or based on deception; seeming plausible, but based on pretense or insincerity; deceptive; misleading; insincere; specious.
- Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry.
- Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful.
- Like or relating to a prostitute
- Based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
- Tastelessly showy
- Attracting attention in a vulgar manner.
- Plausible but false or insincere; specious.
- Of or relating to prostitutes or prostitution.
SPECIOUS vs MERETRICIOUS: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Pleasing to the eye; externally fair or showy; appearing beautiful or charming; sightly; beautiful.
- Superficially fair, just, or correct; appearing well; apparently right; plausible; beguiling: as, specious reasoning; a specious argument; a specious person or book.
- Appearing actual, or in reality; actually existing; not imaginary.
- Pertaining to species or a species.
- Synonyms Colorable, Plausible, etc. See ostensible.
- Based on pretense
- Deceptively pleasing
- Of or pertaining to prostitutes; wanton; libidinous.
- Based on pretense
- Alluring by false attractions; having a gaudy but deceitful appearance; tawdry; showy: as, meretricious dress or ornaments.
- Deceptively pleasing
SPECIOUS vs MERETRICIOUS: RELATED WORDS
- Disingenuous, Unnecessary, Deceptive, Paradoxical, Deceitful, Superfluous, Illusory, Misleading, Fallacious, Gilded, Invalid, Insincere, False, Meretricious, Spurious
- Loud, Flashy, Cheap, Tatty, Brassy, Gilded, Gaudy, Insincere, Tasteless, Garish, Trashy, Tacky, Tawdry, Gimcrack, Specious
SPECIOUS vs MERETRICIOUS: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Disingenuous, Unnecessary, Deceptive, Paradoxical, Deceitful, Superfluous, Illusory, Misleading, Fallacious, Gilded, Invalid, Insincere, False, Meretricious, Spurious
- Loud, Flashy, Cheap, Tatty, Brassy, Gilded, Gaudy, Insincere, Tasteless, Garish, Trashy, Tacky, Tawdry, Gimcrack, Specious
SPECIOUS vs MERETRICIOUS: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- The claim against Aetna is specious for similar reasons.
- His reasoning is ingenious, specious and intelligible as usual.
- Obviously the motive behind this specious theology is virtuous.
- Perhaps the evidence and argument is specious at best.
- In my view, that is a specious argument, apocryphal.
- The third point is tautological and therefore specious.
- Urquidi was an employee of Chase is specious.
- A more specious argument can hardly be imagined.
- All the chambers are provided with specious closets.
- Specious facts cannot support a finding of favoritism.
- The message may be meretricious, but the end result is a net positive.
- True taste abhors meretricious ornaments, as much as the gospel does.
- In all of this, there was nothing meretricious, nothing affected.
- It certainly possesses much real merit, in addition to its meretricious attractions.
- Our alimony modification private investigators use proven strategies to uncover meretricious relationships.
- The Mormons are highly politically motivated, opinionated and more than somewhat meretricious.
- There are very specific standards regarding so called meretricious relationships.
- Much that was presumptuous and meretricious withered under his gaze.
- This gay life here was meretricious and artificial, I decided.
- In a word, meretricious, like the houses Gabbay dislikes.