puffery

• Dr. Garnett (in the Dictionary of National Biography ) says of him, shortly after his first joining the staff in 1833, that 'his articles largely contributed to maintain the reputation the Athenaeum had already acquired for impartiality at a time when puffery was more rampant than ever before or since, and when the only other London literary journal of any pretension was notoriously venal.' —  The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)
• Escrima had heard that kind of puffery before and knew better than to put much weight on it. —  Phule Me Twice
• Big bass and thug puffery, until the night this old guy—seemed old to us, in retrospect, he was probably all of thirty—stuck his head in the garage, offered to sit in on drums and show us some authentic Jamaican grooves. —  MFSF,January2005
• If this were just some occasional bit of puffery, fine. —  Ace of Spades HQ
• In their own puffery, the Office calls the new landscape 'a vibrant, thriving district of new communities surrounded by beautiful parklands and reclaimed waterways with outstanding sporting, educational and cultural facilities '. —  Telegraph Blogs

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