What does puffery mean?
Puffery means An act of puffing..
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/ˈpʌfəɹi/ · noun
An act of puffing..
Harvest was promptly pegged as a "lite" group, a purveyor of pop puffery.
Cigarheads even have a new magazine, a lavish, glossy two-pound package of pride and puffery called Cigar Aficionado.
Use puffery when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Puffery means An act of puffing..
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Harvest was promptly pegged as a "lite" group, a purveyor of pop puffery.
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