press-agentry
Americannoun
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the vocation or responsibilities of a press agent.
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publicity produced by a press agent's work or skill, especially in making a person or thing seem more desirable, admirable, or successful.
Etymology
Origin of press-agentry
First recorded in 1910–15; press agent + -ry
Example Sentences
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Part of J.P.L.'s technical proficiency and lack of press-agentry is due to its connection with Caltech.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jaded with press-agentry is Miami, but fortnight ago her citizens were stirred by a new publicity gag turned loose upon them by the McCann-Erickson advertising agency.
From Time Magazine Archive
Despite the rub-a-dub-dub of press-agentry, they emerged as ordinary, hardworking, courageous airmen who were willing to chance death in the hope of finding the future that lies in some far sky.
From Time Magazine Archive
The tricks of press-agentry which Authors Wilson Mizner and Robert Lord have thought up for Cagney, even the few which are carefully outlined, can scarcely be considered monuments of ingenuity.
From Time Magazine Archive
By the averagely curious citizen, eager for insight behind the gilded curtains of press-agentry and partisanship, it was hailed as a shaft of common-sense sunlight thrown into a clay-footed wilderness of political pap.
From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace) Gilbert
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