persiflage
Example Sentences
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Maybe that shows that they’ve finally gotten wise to the PR persiflage of Big Pharma.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2023
The voice of the show is familiar, from barbershop persiflage, stoop-sitting smack talk, and barstool bullshitting.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 22, 2019
Follow this with a little badinage and dollop of persiflage.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2015
As a columnist for the Boston Phoenix and Boston Herald, he covered all sports, displaying an uncanny ability to cut through the persiflage and get to the core of a story or a personality.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 29, 2011
If I mistake not, you referred to me farther on in the style of airy persiflage as a "holier than thou," a journalistic, scriptural phrase in current use among so-called patriotic Americans.
From Search-Light Letters by Robert Grant
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