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How to use puffery in a sentence

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There has always been a fine line between legitimate puffery and misleading advertising.
Bringing attention to the absurdity and pointlessness of this provincial puffery does nothing to stop it.
Everybody has individual needs, desires and habits, but commercial puffery bamboozles us with brash claims and big numbers.
Overall, though, despite the blizzard of facts and figures, both candidates generally limited themselves to modest exaggerations and standard issue political puffery.
Finlay went on to stress that the Ombudsman has been balanced in his reports and public statements by noting not only cases of puffery but also praising the administration where it has improved its service.
To respect the intelligence of our customers by providing products and designs that do exactly what we advertise they will, without artifice, deception or puffery.
However, the regulator tolerates some puffery or exaggeration. As a consequence, the results of whitening treatment may not be as convincing as consumers originally expected.
Clearly, this is most important in the case of fraud and other illegal activity, but it applies equally to the puffery of even our most august financial institutions regarding the products they provide.
The glitzy puffery of the materials may attract some students, but they're unlikely to be the most promising ones.
Statements in a contract may not be upheld if the court finds that the statements are subjective or promotional puffery.
But the puffery on most anniversary specials is mild, perhaps because there is something humbling about Katrina that abashes even the most egotistical personalities.
In an interview on Wednesday, a leading Chinese expert on the military, Zhu Feng, said he viewed some claims of rapid progress on advanced weapons as little more than puffery.
In the same way, North Americans are fairly well used to stripping an advertisement of its superlatives, clearing away the puffery, and disregarding claims of the near-miraculous.
Thus, that's mere selling puffery, the opposite of reaching an objective empirical conclusion.
They don't want to put a bunch of puffery out there that we overstated something or were completely in error.
Examples of puffery could be a massage therapist claiming to give the best massage in the world or a naturopath selling herbs that will melt fat away.
These constraints are symbolized by the chametz, the leavened products that are banished for the holiday, and which allude to the spiritual impediment of ego puffery.
The US is outperforming Europe and the Yellen Fed will be forced to normalise rates sooner than the markets expect, despite the puffery from Jackson Hole.
No Puffery Cooling Roll-On for Puffy Eyes helps reduce signs of puffiness and fatigue.
Examples from Classical Literature
It has then exhausted all the dodges of puffery in pumping up an unusual degree of excitement.
How I hate the glib rattle of his tongue, the mouldiness of his jests and the transparency of his puffery!
Among my experiences of that nauseous ingredient in theatrical life, puffery, some have been amusing enough.
Generous enough in his own way with the abundant earnings of his art, Lemaitre declined to pay for puffery.
It is, in fact, a new species of puffery, of considerable ingenuity.
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