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Noun: meretriciousness
  1. An appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility
    - speciousness
     
  2. Tasteless showiness
    - flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, loudness, brashness, tawdriness, glitz

Derived forms: meretriciousnesses

See also: meretricious

Type of: deceptiveness, obliquity, tastelessness

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