meretricious
(en)
(adjective) of or relating to a prostitute; having the nature of prostitution / (adjective) tawdrily and falsely attractive / (adjective) superficially significant; pretentious
although disdainful of the meretricious vices he found in most novels, he was at the same time extremely diffident about the merits of his own.
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