puffery
/ˈpʌf(ə)ri
/noun [mass noun] chiefly North American
Exaggerated or false praise: his puffery actually was not far from the truth...
- There has always been a fine line between legitimate puffery and misleading advertising.
- Savvy readers soon learn to discount this overt puffery.
- Overall, though, despite the blizzard of facts and figures, both candidates generally limited themselves to modest exaggerations and standard issue political puffery.
- poundstone
- pounds worth
- pound the beat
- pound-weight
- Poupart's ligament
- poupeton
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- pou pou
- poupée
- pour
- pourable
- pourboire
- pour cold water on
- pour encourager les autres
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- pourie
- pouring cream
- pouring rights
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- pouriture
- pour le sport
- pour oil on troubled waters
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- pourparty