puffery in English

noun
1
exaggerated or false praise.
There has always been a fine line between legitimate puffery and misleading advertising.

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1. 1 So you're driven to animalistic puffery.

2. Emotion and adjective “puffery” are at a minimum.

3. 2 Using puffery to raise awareness of products is illegal.

4. 11 It's a bold claim, one that goes beyond mere puffery.

5. Synonyms for Aggrandizement include boasting, braggadocio, embellishment, exaggeration, overstatement, puffery, elevation, ennoblement, exaltation and glorification

6. 9 Our would-be Japanese guests surely know the difference between puffery and truth.

7. 5 For now we're thinking it's puffery—but intriguing developments are under way.

8. 8 Western courts tend to dismiss the claims of real estate agents as "mere puffery".

9. Synonyms for Aggrandizements include boastings, braggadocios, embellishment, exaggeration, overstatements, puffery, elevation, ennoblement, exaltation and

10. 3 It's all puffery and nonsense that can constrain and damage the mind and a life.

11. 6 EXAMPLE: A responsible advertising agency tries to avoid puffery when creating descriptions of its client's new products.

12. 4 A responsible advertising agency tries to avoid puffery when creating descriptions of its client's new products.

13. Um, if we're claiming puffery, why do I need to waste all my time with these motions?

14. 7 There's more to the expo than mere PR puffery – what it says about architecture and the city is fascinating, and what it neglects to say, even more so.

15. 10 The satirical magazine Spy threw darts at all the puffery of the era,(www.Sentencedict.com) and was especially fast to disdain the gaudy arrivistes in favor of dandruff- flecked Old Money.

16. Puffery is an exaggerated claim typically found in advertising and publicity announcements, such as "the highest quality at the lowest price", or "always votes in the best interest of all the people".

17. In a report published in the Toronto “Star,” journalist Bruce Ward comments: “The ancient Assyrians were masters of ‘hype’ —the adman’s art of puffery and exaggeration— and some of their truth-stretchers were shameless.”