Synonyms for puffery
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : puhf-uh-ree |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpʌf ə ri |
Définition of puffery
Origin :- "inflated laudation" [OED], 1782, from puff (v.) in its figurative sense + -ery.
- noun extravagant commendation
- Generous enough in his own way with the abundant earnings of his art, Lemaitre declined to pay for puffery.
- Extract from : « Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 » by Various
- All the vile and secret arts of réclame and puffery were to find no place in its immaculate pages.
- Extract from : « Masques & Phases » by Robert Ross
- It is, in fact, a new species of puffery, of considerable ingenuity.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 397, November 1848 » by Various
- It has then exhausted all the dodges of puffery in pumping up an unusual degree of excitement.
- Extract from : « Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 436 » by Various
- We don't expect the likes from you, Emon; and we don't mind that fellow's puffery and pride.
- Extract from : « The Catholic World. Volume II; Numbers 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. » by E. Rameur
- How I hate the glib rattle of his tongue, the mouldiness of his jests and the transparency of his puffery!
- Extract from : « In the Track of the Bookworm » by Irving Browne
- Among my experiences of that nauseous ingredient in theatrical life, puffery, some have been amusing enough.
- Extract from : « Records of a Girlhood » by Frances Ann Kemble
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