Usually means: Exaggerated claims not legally binding.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word puffery:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. puffery: Merriam-Webster
  2. puffery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. puffery: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. puffery: Collins English Dictionary
  5. puffery: Vocabulary.com
  6. Puffery, puffery: Wordnik
  7. puffery: Wiktionary
  8. puffery: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. puffery: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. puffery: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. puffery: Dictionary.com
  12. Puffery: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Puffery: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. puffery: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Puffery: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. puffery: FreeDictionary.org
  17. puffery: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. puffery: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. puffery: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. puffery: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (puffery)

▸ noun:  An act of puffing.
▸ noun:  Excessive or false public praise.
▸ noun:  Superficial or insubstantial material; fluff.

Similar:
puffing, fuff, efflation, pluff, pouf, piffle, chuff, gassing, piff, touting, more...

Opposite:
candor, frankness, honesty, openness

Types:
superlative, hyperbole, exaggeration, more...

Adjectives:
mere, such, much, pure, commercial, mutual, political, public, self, personal, literary

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Similar:
puffing, fuff, efflation, pluff, pouf, piffle, chuff, gassing, piff, touting, more...

Opposite:
candor, frankness, honesty, openness

Types:
superlative, hyperbole, exaggeration, more...

Adjectives:
mere, such, much, pure, commercial, mutual, political, public, self, personal, literary



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