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Puffery   /pˈəfəri/   Listen
Puffery

noun
1.
A flattering commendation (especially when used for promotional purposes).





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"Puffery" Quotes from Famous Books



... her wiles, nor come across her track, even, and seen the bodies and the bones of those who perished in puffing her. Some persons of rank and fashion have a taste for the society of some men of letters, but nothing in the way of literary puffery seems to come of it. Of course many critics like to give their friends and acquaintances an applausive hand, and among their acquaintances may be ladies of fashion who write novels; but we read nowhere such extraordinary adulations as Augustus ...
— Essays in Little • Andrew Lang


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