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 film was not a work of puffery; it also offered critical perspectives.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2024

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

This is especially the case when a new piece is performed from which much is expected, or concerning which, by puffery or for other reasons, the public curiosity has been greatly excited.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various