a whole new generation who cannot remember alternatives to "marketplace" meretriciousness is coming to fruition, and that, surely, has an effect on how younger people view what Art (and people) are

'Meretricious. That's the word I'd use, if asked.'

a forgotten poet who wrote bad, meretricious verse at some time

her multisyllabic mewing sounds were stagy, meretricious

offered in the most piking and meretricious traffic millions of times a day

Its utter mediocrity was stressed by the fraudulent chic of alliterations and the meretricious richness of illiterate rhymes.

it is with something of a shudder that I recall the meretricious imitation she gave of reaching her vocal climax