Crossword-Solution: PUFFERY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Puffery | n. | The act of puffing; bestowment of extravagant commendation. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “PUFFERY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| exaggerated praise, esp in publicity or advertising | 1 answer |
| Exaggerated praise | 2 answers |
| A FLATTERING COMMENDATION | 11 answers |
| Hype | 13 answers |
| Ballyhoo | 28 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PUFFERY (5)
The question raised by the resolution is whether this is a public corporation for the relief of men of genius and learning, or whether it is a snug, traditional, and conventional party, bent upon maintaining its own usages with a vast amount of pride; upon its own annual puffery at costly dinner-tables, and upon a course of expensive toadying to a number of distinguished individuals.
This is a larger body of workers than might be supposed, for it includes amongst others all those engaged in what I should call competitive salesmanship, or, to use a less dignified word, the puffery of wares, which has now got to such a pitch that there are many things which cost far more to sell than they do to make.
PRIVATE Ghastly, isn't it! OLD MAN Ghastly! Frightful! YOUNG MAN [to Private] He don't know what it is! That's his pride and puffery.
Advertise sufficiently, yet with becoming modesty, for 'puffery' is a thing I heartily despise,--and were the whole press to turn round and applaud me as much as it has hitherto abused and ridiculed me, I would not have one of its penny lines of condescendingly ignorant approval quoted in connection with what must be a perfectly unostentatious and simple announcement of this new production from my pen.
She soon learned that he was a somewhat famous personage,--famous for his genius, his scorn of accepted rules, and his contempt for all "puffery," push and patronage, as well as for his brusquerie in society and carelessness of conventions.
Quotes with PUFFERY (1)
THE ORGANIC FOODS MYTHA few decades ago, a woman tried to sue a butter company that had printed the word 'LITE' on its product's packaging. She claimed to have gained so much weight from eating the butter, even though it was labeled as being 'LITE'. In court, the lawyer representing the butter company simply held up the container of butter and said to the judge, "My client did not lie. The container is indeed 'light in weight'. The woman lost the case. In a marketing class in…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2004).