persiflage

Example Sentences

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Maybe that shows that they’ve finally gotten wise to the PR persiflage of Big Pharma.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 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)