puffery
noun
undue or exaggerated praise.
pufferies
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pluralof puffery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Yet it had evidently failed to impress the public of this town, their experiences probably having rendered them sceptical of such pufferies, for the house was miserably bad.
From The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes by Various
