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

The panda wins by virtue of the puffery and power grab.

From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025

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

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2023

Of course, this kind of puffery was pumped by real estate interests, railroads, newspapers, movie studios and politicians.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2023

It has then exhausted all the dodges of puffery in pumping up an unusual degree of excitement.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 436 Volume 17, New Series, May 8, 1852 by Chambers, Robert