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

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

He laughed over the coarse puffery which, after a first article on the 'young master's' picture, as yet seen by nobody, had for a week past kept all Paris occupied about him.

From His Masterpiece by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred