puffery

How To Use puffery In A Sentence

• Oreck next maintained that many of its challenged statements were nonactionable puffery: (1) the Dyson is “bulky”; (2) the Oreck vacuum emits “no puff” of dust when it is emptied; (3) the Dyson bin emptying process is “messy” and the Dyson filter is “not sanitary” and a “dirty little secret”; and (4) the XL Ultra 4120 weighs “only nine pounds,” while the weight of the DC14 is “backbreaking.” Archive 2009-03-01
• I don't need to lead you through the thickets of distortion, deceit, and self-puffery here.
• Alongside its class snobbery and scurrilous hilarity this poem also argues that truth cannot reside in a periodical publication: "Truth," Peter declaims, "Lifts her fair head, and looks with brow sublime/On all the fading pageantries of time" (Works 271) and especially on a magazine full of puffery, interest, and sham learning. 'Manlius to Peter Pindar':Satire, Patriotism, and Masculinity in the 1790s
• Overall, though, despite the blizzard of facts and figures, both candidates generally limited themselves to modest exaggerations and standard issue political puffery.
• Why has NAD deviated from the courts in treating falsity/puffery? Archive 2009-06-01
• Western courts tend to dismiss the claims of real estate agents as "mere puffery".
• To our understanding, it's a send up of the cultural gravitas and humorless puffery we attach to books, seen through the story of a teenage girl whose wealthy parents commission a novel about her in order to land grant her bibliophilia. Kevin Smokler: The Shelf Talker: Butterscotch, and Prairie Home Companion
• Your bit of equivalent puffery was, ‘Nobody does it better’.
• The puffery is gone, it’s stripped down to the facts that I could verify (and a couple that I couldn’t), everything is footnoted, and it is now completely neutral. Waldo Jaquith - Dave Albo vs. Wikipedia.
• Hat-manufacturer, as the topstone of English Puffery, was very notable. Past and Present