persiflage
Example Sentences
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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
The officer’s look told Pape even louder than his words that the time for persiflage had passed, unless he really wished a police court interval.
From Lonesome Town by Dorrance, Ethel
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
