puffery

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

The film was not a work of puffery; it also offered critical perspectives.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2024

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

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2023

He laughed over the coarse puffery which, after a first article on the 'young master's' picture, as yet seen by nobody, had for a week past kept all Paris occupied about him.

From His Masterpiece by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred