meretricious

adj.

1. 华而不实的；虚有其表的；金玉其外的
   seeming attractive, but in fact having no real value

1. ADJ-GRADED 华而不实的;徒有其表的
   If you describe something as meretricious, you disapprove of it because although it looks attractive it is actually of little value.
   1. ...vulgar, meretricious and shabby souvenirs.
      俗气花哨、质量低劣的纪念品

1. It was a platinum fob chain simple and chaste in design, properly proclaiming its value by substance alone and not by meretricious ornamentation& as all good things should do.
   那是一条白金表链，式样简单朴素，只以货色来宣誓它的价值，不凭什么不可耐的装潢&一切好东西都应该是这样的。
2. He was a son of god a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that and he must be about his father's business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty.
   他是上帝的儿子这个称号，如果有什么意义的话，就是字面的意思因此他必须为他的天父效命，献身于一种博大、庸俗、华而不实的美。
3. Advertisements convey an impression, however meretricious, of the importance of the goods being sold.
   商业广告尽管华而不实，却能使人对正在销售的商品的重要性留有印象。
4. He claims that a lot of journalism is meretricious and superficial.
   他断言许多新闻报道华而不实而且肤浅。
5. A wooden building painted to look like marble is meretricious.
   一座漆得像大理石般的木制建筑物外表是美丽的。
6. Everywhere there are meretricious actions and opportunism; everywhere there is an expectation of simple orders.
   到处勃发着浮华和机遇，到处期待着朴素的秩序。
7. So it is not surprising that politically expedient assertions about China have become as American as fortune cookies, and as sententiously meretricious as the prophecies and advice these encase.
   所以毫不奇怪，既有将中国视为同美国一般财富源泉的积极的政治评价，也有说教的预言和忠告，称中国不过是华而不实、徒有其表。
8. Some states adopt the "meretricious relationships" and "domestic partnerships". Like the United States, the United Kingdom has gone through a phase of ultra-conservative, however, the reform pace of modern Britain is not as quick as the United States.
   英国与美国一样经历了一个极度保守的阶段，然而英国现代的改革却没有美国的步伐大。

adj

1. based on pretense
   1. the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility
   2. meretricious praise
   3. a meretricious argument

   Synonym:    gildedspecious

2. tastelessly showy
   1. a flash car
   2. a flashy ring
   3. garish colors
   4. a gaudy costume
   5. loud sport shirts
   6. a meretricious yet stylish book
   7. tawdry ornaments

   Synonym:    brassycheapflashflashygarishgaudygimcrackloudtackytattytawdrytrashy

3. like or relating to a prostitute
   1. meretricious relationships