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[ US /ˈbæɫiˈhu/ ]
[ UK /bˌælɪhˈuː/ ]
NOUN
  1. blatant or sensational promotion
VERB
  1. advertize noisily or blatantly

How To Use ballyhoo In A Sentence

  • Digital technology comes to us heralded by a great deal of utopian ballyhoo, but in some surprising ways it discourages creativity.
  • There's a lot of ballyhoo involved in getting a taxi in this country.
  • Amidst all of the mainstream media's ballyhooing of the momentum to be gained in the tight Iowa polls, The New York Times finally examined the caucuses sheer unfairness and obsoleteness. Dan Brown: You and I Don't Care Who Wins the Iowa Caucuses
  • Amid so much ballyhoo, it's always healthy to find dissenting voices. Pepe Escobar: Is Brazil the New United States?
  • The power of red wine to counteract high cholesterol has been ballyhooed in the press.
  • Even the much ballyhooed special effects manage to break down spectacularly in a couple of scenes.
  • And amidst all the teenage jeers and overall ballyhoo, one serious middle-aged man said, ‘I want to believe’.
  • The candidate's campaign was attended with too much ballyhoo.
  • At issue was a widely ballyhooed test of the razzle-dazzle, video-arcade, anti-missile-defense scheme known as Star Wars.
  • The ballyhoo with which the film has been received has to be attributed, at least in part, to the impoverishment of field from which it springs.
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