A wooden building painted to look like marble is meretricious.
a meretricious style, book, argument
The perspective just as moral truths, that are presented in their simplicity without the meretricious AIDS of ornament or glitter.
It was a platinum fob chain simple and chaste in design, properly proclaiming its value by substance alone and not by meretricious ornamentation--as all good things should do.
I saw the beauty of Shangri-la, the meretricious of Dali, the impatience of Lijiang, and the uneducated people of Yunnan.