persiflage
Example Sentences
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This is just PR persiflage, and you can safely ignore it.
From Los Angeles Times
None of this will keep Republicans and conservatives from attacking the reconciliation bill with smoke, mirrors and persiflage.
From Los Angeles Times
Notwithstanding the Tea Party persiflage about freedom of choice at the lightbulb counter, it’s probably more appropriate to see the issue as part and parcel of conservatives’ broader war on energy efficiency policies.
From Los Angeles Times
Musk is widely esteemed as a “visionary,” but he hasn’t shown that he can run a car company — which is what Tesla is, despite all the persiflage about its being a technology or software company.
From Los Angeles Times
As often happens, the Twitter persiflage obscured a more substantive development: intelligence community leaks about the private phone conversations of Michael Flynn, Trump’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
