How To Use Puffery In A Sentence
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Such "puffery" was not unique, nor was it limited to the beauty products available for women.
Madame Rachel: Beautiful for Ever
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And then we'd have missed out on this piano-plonking, pappy, pop puffery.
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-- To my Friend Sauerteig this poor seven-feet Hat-manufacturer, as the topstone of English Puffery, was very notable.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
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For evidence of Obama's "puffery" we have a Republican senator running for re-election.
Report: Both Obama And Clinton Embellished Senate Roles
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For evidence of Clinton's "puffery" we have timelines of when things happened, we have her own schedules, etc.
Report: Both Obama And Clinton Embellished Senate Roles
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There has always been a fine line between legitimate puffery and misleading advertising.
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Reality: puffery is anything a judge, NAD, or arbitrator says a consumer clearly should not rely on.
Archive 2009-06-01
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But of course, it’s Hollywood, and the gentlemen on the tape who have been caught blatantly contradicting themselves, swanning about and engaging in puffery of the first order, are shameless enough, and arrogant enough not to care.
Hollywood Producers Damn Themselves With Their Own Words | Disinformation
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In response to the shareholder lawsuit, Moody's argued that its claims to independence and ratings integrity were just "puffery" - legalese for innocent exaggeration:
GlobalResearch.ca
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Celebrity chatter is my guilty pleasure, but the Fug Girls call the puffery to account.
Design Observer: Main Posts
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‘This last bit is not just puffery,’ Sulzberger said.
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Savvy readers soon learn to discount this overt puffery.
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But the addition of “the” to “complete sports drink” was, the court ruled, non-actionable puffery: “consumers understand that the advertiser is not contending that the particular attribute or feature can only be found in its product.”
Hoist on its own potassium: Gatorade loses to Powerade
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Oreck next maintained that many of its challenged statements were nonactionable puffery: (1) the Dyson is “bulky”; (2) the Oreck vacuum emits “no puff” of dust when it is emptied; (3) the Dyson bin emptying process is “messy” and the Dyson filter is “not sanitary” and a “dirty little secret”; and (4) the XL Ultra 4120 weighs “only nine pounds,” while the weight of the DC14 is “backbreaking.”
Archive 2009-03-01
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I had thought he would relish the Focus assignment, but he seemed to regard it as puffery, chamber of commerce flackery.
DOWNTOWN
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They have every reason to engage in puffery regarding the less fraudulent nature of its clickers.
Google and Click Fraud: Behind the Numbers - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
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Hat-manufacturer, as the topstone of English Puffery, was very notable.
Past and Present
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The puffery is gone, it’s stripped down to the facts that I could verify (and a couple that I couldn’t), everything is footnoted, and it is now completely neutral.
Waldo Jaquith - Dave Albo vs. Wikipedia.
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Your bit of equivalent puffery was, ‘Nobody does it better’.
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To our understanding, it's a send up of the cultural gravitas and humorless puffery we attach to books, seen through the story of a teenage girl whose wealthy parents commission a novel about her in order to land grant her bibliophilia.
Kevin Smokler: The Shelf Talker: Butterscotch, and Prairie Home Companion
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Western courts tend to dismiss the claims of real estate agents as "mere puffery".
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Why has NAD deviated from the courts in treating falsity/puffery?
Archive 2009-06-01
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Overall, though, despite the blizzard of facts and figures, both candidates generally limited themselves to modest exaggerations and standard issue political puffery.
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Alongside its class snobbery and scurrilous hilarity this poem also argues that truth cannot reside in a periodical publication: "Truth," Peter declaims, "Lifts her fair head, and looks with brow sublime/On all the fading pageantries of time" (Works 271) and especially on a magazine full of puffery, interest, and sham learning.
'Manlius to Peter Pindar':Satire, Patriotism, and Masculinity in the 1790s
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I don't need to lead you through the thickets of distortion, deceit, and self-puffery here.