otiose, mendacious, fatuous, risible, vainglorious, shameless, vacuous, tendentious, crass, dilettantish, pompous, simpleminded, tu quoque, nabokovian, contentless, mealymouthed, banal, plagiaristic, rebarbative, puerile, grotesque, prolix, specious, gimcrack, substanceless, contemptible, jejune, superfluous, middlebrow, delusory, pretentious, obfuscating, addlepated, propagandistic, adjectival, pettifogging, crasser, sententious, nugatory, reductio ad absurdum, tricksy, overdetermined, sophistic, baldfaced, obtuse, hyperbolic, obsequious, sensationalistic, unpoetic, fallacious, credulous, pseudo, ahistorical, aggrandizing, hifalutin, hubristic, pythonesque, dunderheaded, unscholarly, demagogic, guileful, swiftian, loathsome, drivelling, contemptuous, hackneyed, pernicious, artless, onanistic, pedantic, nullities, tautological, syllogistic, sneery, sanctimonious, lowbrow, sophistical, captious, barefaced, gaudily, disingenuous, witless, sedulous, damnable, conscienceless, hyperbolized, softheaded, grandiloquent, artful, unoffending, discreditable, euphemistic, gratuitous, florid, fustian, unthinking, bilious, jamesian, unwonted, blither, unobjectionable, pejorative, tawdry, seductive, sculptural, beguiling, captivating, decorative, illusionistic, pictorial, surrealistic, bewitching, deceptive, inartistic, rococo, amateurish, diviner, expressive, figural, incomparable, magical, matchless

flashily, meretriciously

brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gilded, in poor taste, insincere, loud, tacky, tasteless, tatty, trashy