How to Use puffery in a Sentence

puffery

noun

• No more of those puffery deadlines that have no stake in the ground.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
• Such was the backlash against its puffery that it was forced to scrap its flotation.
  — The Economist, 31 Mar. 2021
• Even volcanoes known for such puffery don’t make rings all the time.
  — Carolyn Wilke, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• As for hog-tying Whitmer, that was puffery, the defense lawyer claimed.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 5 Apr. 2022
• Investors seem to view his penchant for puffery as a feature rather than a bug.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2018
• People can smell fake gratitude and ego puffery a mile away.
  — Amy Blaschka, Forbes, 7 May 2022
• And as companies try to ride the boom, investors should expect to sort through a lot of AI-ish-sounding puffery.
  — Vildana Hajric, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2023
• Chutkow also touched on the defense's claims that this case was all about puffery, big talkers engaged in tough talk and blowing off steam.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 6 Apr. 2022
• To some extent, all party Conventions are pageants of paradox and puffery.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2020
• Defense lawyers have maintained that their clients were not part of any real plot to harm anyone, and that they were merely engaged in puffery and tough talk.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 16 Jan. 2021
• The defense says this was all puffery, wanna-be military guys who talked a big game and tried to impress one another.
  — Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 10 Mar. 2022
• To my eye, Mr. Aron has been parsing his ebullient puffery with appropriate care.
  — WSJ, 8 June 2021
• But the suggestion that there is just one worthy candidate is puffery that disrespects both of them.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2022
• Trump’s public persona has been geared toward manic puffery of his own success.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 28 June 2018
• The defendants also have argued that they were merely engaged in puffery, tough talk, and that this case has been blown out of proportion.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 8 Mar. 2022
• But while those profiles are useful, some people see them as a little more than organized puffery.
  — Smriti Rao, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2010
• The defense has argued that the defendants were merely blowing off steam, and that they were engaged in puffery and tough talk, with no real plan to harm anyone.
  — Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 30 Mar. 2022
• Tasked with the surreal job of heroizing a product in 30 or 60 seconds, the best of them spin elegant arguments out of puffery.
  — Mac Schwerin, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2020
• The nearly 500 pages that follow are rife with this kind of self-congratulatory puffery.
  — Peter Bergen, CNN, 29 Aug. 2022
• Finally, after diving headfirst into bravado and chest puffery all episode, Axe grits his teeth.
  — refinery29.com, 21 May 2018
• This attitude puts the pomp and puffery of premium economy into sharp relief.
  — Mac Schwerin, The Atlantic, 29 May 2022
• The men and women of this sprawling northern county—England's largest—are known for their self-deprecating humor, and love to stick a pin in any kind of puffery, especially their own.
  — Joshua Levine, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2021
• Unlike harmless advertising puffery around a toothpaste that kills 99.9% of germs, the narrative of 7% growth has done real damage.
  — Washington Post, 16 June 2019
• Embedded in all this puffery was Lyft’s rationale for refusing a refund.
  — Sean P. Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2022
• In a world of puffery, fakery and deception, even a calamitous dose of reality can feel, on some level, reassuring.
  — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 3 July 2019
• Defense lawyers have argued that the defendants had no real plan to kidnap the governor, but were only blowing off steam, talking tough and engaging in puffery.
  — Tresa Baldas, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2021
• Trump, perhaps the most animalistic of spirits, may think his constant puffery is boosting markets.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Jan. 2018
• The scam signs listed by the office include: ▪ Unsolicited communication, including message board and blog posts that might be false puffery.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 31 Aug. 2017
• His online magazine was established, Tilson noted, to deliver the honest truth about the food and wine industries, rather than the puffery often found in more commercial publications.
  — Steve Lopez Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2021
• The managers of alternative investments and pension overseers are complicit in the performance puffery.
  — Edward Siedle, Forbes, 21 May 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024