puffery

Example Sentences

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Ms. Coppola’s approach doesn’t even rise to the level of the journalism in Vogue, which itself gets lots of puffery.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

Customers are expected to be smart enough to recognise that ads will often contain a certain amount of "puffery".

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2023

Gorsuch was trolling here, wielding Norfolk Southern’s own promotional puffery against it.

From Slate • Jun. 28, 2023

Even volcanoes known for such puffery don’t make rings all the time.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2023

Her nature fame was powerless to soil, Whom splendour hardened not, and puffery could not spoil.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, Nov. 11, 1887 by Various