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单词 puffery
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pufferynoun [ U ]

/ˈpʌf.ər.i//ˈpʌf.ɚ.i/mainly US

the act of praising someone or something too much in a way that is not sincere:

It's usually easy to tell the difference between sales puffery and fact.
His book avoids academic puffery and offers real insight.

More examples

  • Advertisers use a great deal of puffery.
  • Statements made in an explicitly joking manner are not puffery.
  • Puffery does not affect the buying behaviour of consumers.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Exaggerating & playing down

  • alarmist
  • blow sth out of proportion idiom
  • drama queen
  • dramatize
  • exaggeration
  • lard
  • lay
  • make a meal (out) of sth idiom
  • make much of sth idiom
  • make sth of sth
  • meal
  • over-egg the pudding idiom
  • overboard
  • overplay
  • overstatement
  • pad
  • pudding
  • stretch
  • stretch the truth idiom
  • understatement

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