Also, "meretricious" doesn't mean clever at all. It means "apparently attractive but having in reality no value or integrity." The only time I've seen the word

Also, "meretricious" doesn't mean clever at all. It means "apparently attractive but having in reality no value or integrity." The only time I've seen the word in print was in the Sherlock Holmes books. Benedict Cumberbatch also used it once in BBC's Sherlock.