puffery
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Puffery is the "able editor's" invariable prescription, no matter whether the patient be a moss-grown town, a broken-down political roue—the victim of early indiscretions—or a Cheap-John merchant suffering the first paroxysms of financial dissolution.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by Brann, William Cowper
To me this all-deafening blast of Puffery, of poor Falsehood grown necessitous, of poor Heart- Atheism fallen now into Enchanted Workhouses, sounds too surely like a Doom's-blast!
From Past and Present by Carlyle, Thomas
To me this all-deafening blast of Puffery, of poor Falsehood grown necessitous, of poor Heart-Atheism fallen now into Enchanted Workhouses, sounds too surely like a Doom's-blast!
From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas
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