persiflage
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This is just PR persiflage, and you can safely ignore it.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 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
In cases where an angel would lose his temper under the gentlest persiflage it is only decent to leave a willing but disappointed man to himself.
From Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by Vincent, J. E. (James Edmund)
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