What does ballyhooed mean?
Ballyhooed means Sensationalized; presented with grand claims..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Sensationalized; presented with grand claims..
"In Iraq, [director of the American University of Beirut's Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs Rami] Khouri said, the country's vote in January 2005 produced the "much-ballyhooed purple ink-stained finger" but cannot be equated with credible democratic transformation."
Waitress: There's a man over there who says he's waiting for you. Niles: Ah. No doubt the much ballyhooed Bob.
"...viewers didn't hate them. They were just shocked by them. And all of the ballyhooed techniques used by the armies of market researchers at CBS utterly failed to distinguish between these two very different emotions."
Behind the scenes, the system had quietly punched a neat loophole into the ballyhooed reform.
Use ballyhooed when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ballyhooed means Sensationalized; presented with grand claims..
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"In Iraq, [director of the American University of Beirut's Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs Rami] Khouri said, the country's vote in January 2005 produced the "much-ballyhooed purple ink-stained finger" but cannot be equated with credible democratic transformation."
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