vocabulary

from Merriam-Webster

estoppel: a legal bar to alleging or denying a fact because of one's own previous actions or words to the contrary

meretricious: 1 : of or relating to a prostitute : having the nature of prostitution *meretricious relationships*
2 a : tawdrily and falsely attractive *the paradise they found was a piece of meretricious trash ? Carolyn See* b : superficially significant : PRETENTIOUS *scholarly names to provide fig-leaves of respectability for meretricious but stylish books ? Times Literary Supplement*