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

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

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2023

Gorsuch was trolling here, wielding Norfolk Southern’s own promotional puffery against it.

From Slate • Jun. 28, 2023

I’m incapable of the American assertiveness that New Zealanders see as puffery.

From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2022

Several times during that year the Athenæum assailed the system of private puffery which was followed by the Gazette and eventually caused its downfall.

From Early Reviews of English Poets by Haney, John Louis