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UK
/ˌɪnfəʊmˈɜːʃəl/
]
[ US /ˈɪnfoʊˌmɝʃəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈɪnfoʊˌmɝʃəɫ/ ]
NOUN
- a television commercial presented in the form of a short documentary
How To Use infomercial In A Sentence
- Sanders also is in discussions to serve as a spokesperson for infomercials.
- I felt as though I was watching an infomercial advertising soundbites and bumpersticker slogans.
- They were very apologetic, and immediately dispatched a repairman -- the word "repair," as it's affixed to the front portion of his name, suggesting that the man would remedy the calamitous dearth of high definition Uzbekistani infomercials that were once a part of our lives. Martin Marks: Your Guide to Hurricane Preparedness
- Each spot resembles an infomercial, with a perky host and clap-happy studio audience.
- These days, instead of snake oil salesmen hawking their wares from the back of a wagon, we have late-night cable television infomercials and Web-based promotions.
- Mom says infomercial hosts are spawn of the devil.
- You've seen them advertised on infomercials and in magazines (not this one, of course).
- Like all successful infomercials he uses sexual desire to sell his product, with the animators relishing in the opportunity to create smutty and suggestive scenes.
- Most of us are, at least in a hall that big, and on a nationally broadcast infomercial.
- Makes for some tacky, cringeworthy, infomercial-like television.