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

Masking her greed, her jealousy and her cruelty under a cloak of loud affability and ponderous persiflage, she was a perfect specimen of the fausse bonne femme.

From Humours of Irish Life by Various