puffery

Example Sentences

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Ms. Coppola’s approach doesn’t even rise to the level of the journalism in Vogue, which itself gets lots of puffery.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

The panda wins by virtue of the puffery and power grab.

From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025

Customers are expected to be smart enough to recognise that ads will often contain a certain amount of "puffery".

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2023

Even volcanoes known for such puffery don’t make rings all the time.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2023

In the field of art and literature we have abandoned criticism and research for the Beautiful in favor of universal puffery.

From The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by McKenzie, Aimée G. Leffingwel