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Superficially or garishly attractive but of no real value

Based on pretense or insincerity

Inferior in quality

Elaborately or highly decorated in design or decoration

Exaggerated and excessively dramatic

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Adjective

Superficially or garishly attractive but of no real value

cheap and nasty

twopenny-halfpenny

putting on the ritz

brightly colored^US

brightly coloured^UK

bright-coloured

multicoloured^UK

multicolored^US

many-coloured^US

many-colored^UK

highly-coloured

exhibitionistic

like an explosion in a paint factory

looking like an explosion in a paint factory

not up to snuff

painful to look at

richly colored^UK

richly coloured^US

brilliantly colored^US

brilliantly coloured^UK

multi-colored^US

multi-coloured^UK

many-splendoured

bargain-basement

sticking out a mile

standing out like a sore thumb

standing out a mile

sticking out like a sore thumb

rainbow-coloured

rainbow-colored

hyperventilated

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“Director Alan Parker has turned the handle at the side and cranked out two hours' worth of flashy, meretricious and deeply silly nonsense.”

Adjective

Based on pretense or insincerity

seemingly correct

apparently right

plausible but wrong

unsubstantiated

misrepresentative

wide of the mark

without foundation

economical with the truth

contrary to fact

unauthenticated

terminologically inexact

unstraightforward

wrongly inferred

on the wrong track

out of commission

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“Advocates developed an expanded arsenal of sympathetic expression that would enable readers to see through the meretricious claims of their antagonists.”

Adjective

Inferior in quality

cheap and nasty

twopenny-halfpenny

bargain-basement

dissatisfactory

a load of pants

not up to snuff

not up to scratch

good-for-nothing

leaving much to be desired

less-than-stellar

thrown together

of poor quality

strictly for the birds

end-of-the-pier

of little value

knocked together

of no financial value

unsophisticated

no great shakes

of negligible value

not up to standard

not good enough

would fetch nothing

not worth a hill of beans

of little worth

nickel-and-dime

of little financial value

pieced together

ill-constructed

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Adjective

Elaborately or highly decorated in design or decoration

fancily decorated

hyperventilated

highly decorated

with all the extras

with all the options

with bells and whistles

lavishly appointed

over-embellished

excessively ornate

excessively ornamental

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Adjective

Gilded

Adjective

Exaggerated and excessively dramatic

sensationalised^UK

sensationalized^US

not spontaneous

over-sensational

cloak-and-dagger

blood-and-thunder

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