figurative. Chiefly literary. Coloured so as to deceive; unreal, artificial; feigned, pretended.

Plastered or coated with clay, paint or sticky matter; figurative bedizened, bearing a specious exterior.

Dressed or wrapped up in a cloak; figurative disguised, concealed, secret.

Artificially coloured, beautified with paint; hence, falsified, disguised, counterfeit.

= fucate, adj.

Of a wrong act or intention: misrepresented so as to appear favourable or acceptable; disguised; glossed over. Obsolete.

Frivolous, idle, vain, nonsensical; also, deceptive, fictitious, sham.

attributive passing into adj. †Glittering, splendid (obsolete); chiefly in disparagement: Of deceptively brilliant or valuable appearance; showy with…

figurative. Simulated, pretended.

Characteristic of or resembling a prostitute; meretricious. Obsolete. rare.

Given or having an appearance of purity or rectitude. Cf. whitewashed, adj. 2. Obsolete. rare.

Covered or decorated with plaster or parget.

figurative. Having a flashy superficial splendour without intrinsic value.

figurative. Assumed, pretended.

Covered or coated with lacquer; varnished.

figurative. Having a specious appearance or fair outward show.

Designating a product (esp. a book or other publication) that is designed primarily to attract customers or encourage quick sales; characteristic…

(a) adj. (attributive) designating a product or service of little worth, designed primarily to generate profit (now rare); †(b) n. a product of…

Of the nature of, characterized by, or abounding in tinsel; hence, cheaply splendid or sparkling, gaudy without real worth, ‘pinchbeck’.

Given or having an appearance of honesty, respectability, rectitude, etc. In early use also: †blameless (obsolete).

Of a thing: having a delusive appearance of superior quality. Also: cheap, inferior; displaying signs of use, shabby, dilapidated.

Also transf. (in quot. 1889) and fig. (in quot. 1884).

figurative. That has been reduced to an outer form without substance; lacking core, central, or fundamental elements; (spec. of an institution…

figurative and in extended use. That is or has been redesigned, refurbished, or improved.

colloquial (chiefly U.S.). As a modifier: designating a person regarded as affected or superficially smart or respectable; see suede-shoed adj. at…

figurative. That affects appearance only, superficial; spec., intended merely to improve appearances.