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    colloquial language, puffery refers to exaggerated or false praise. Puffery serves to "puff up" what is being described. In law, puffery is usually invoked...
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    performed its terms. It is notable for its treatment of contract and of puffery in advertising, for its curious subject matter associated with medical...
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    Menu (section Puffery)
    advertising, the prose found on printed menus is famous for the degree of its puffery. Menus frequently emphasize the processes used to prepare foods, call attention...
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  • mail fraud. The defendant stated that as a salesman he had engaged in puffery. In United States v. Takhalov (2016), female nightclub employees would...
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  • requires little proof on the part of advertisers", as it is considered mere puffery. The use of the term in patent law "does not connote even superiority,...
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    "'No frills' war slashes grocery prices", Toronto Star, March 21, 1978 "Puffery leaves the consumer cold", Globe and Mail, April 12, 1978 "no frills pricelist"...
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  • "Evil spirits", such as "Paid Puffery" and "Suggestiveness", spew from "the modern daily press" in this Puck cartoon of November 21, 1888....
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  • allegedly deceptive statements made by the company constituted "non-actionable puffery" because they were "couched in aspirational terms" and that "BlueTriton's...
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  • is not impartial and it is assumed that their statements have a bit of puffery, going from a bit optimistic to completely implausible. This is not always...
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    however, evidence of confusion of an average consumer is needed. Puffing (or puffery) is exaggerating a product's worth with meaningless or unsubstantiated...
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  • this article are written like a press release and need to be purged of puffery and other forms of promotion. Article should be edited for grammar, spelling...
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    This article may require copy editing for MOS:WEASEL, MOS:PUFFERY, grammar, style, cohesion, tone, or spelling. You can assist by editing it. (July 2024)...
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    to the Moon Chronicled in Stamps, Postcards, and Postmarks: A Story of Puffery vs. the Pragmatic. Chichester, UK: Praxis Publishing. ISBN 978-3-319-92153-2...
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  • advertisement must make a proposition to the consumer—not just words, product puffery, or show-window advertising. Each advertisement must say to each reader:...
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    substantive response to the challenge. Coors defended the claims as either puffery or truthful. The company also told NAD that the television, radio and digital...
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    the Greek fabulist and storyteller as an intentional ploy to mock the puffery exhibited in the advertising in the cosmetics industry. He eventually sold...
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    a jet worth roughly $37.4 million for $700,000, i.e., that it was mere puffery. The value of the alleged contract meant that it fell under the provisions...
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    family) serve "fettuccine Alfredo" and compete vigorously, with escalating puffery (e.g., "the king of fettuccine", "the real king of fettuccine", "the magician...
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  • product performs, looks or tastes; other times it is used for advertising puffery. Companies can go to elaborate lengths to maintain secrecy, repackaging...
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    2020. Preston, Ivan L. (August 1, 1996). The Great American Blow-Up: Puffery in Advertising and Selling. Univ of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 9780299152536...
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  • because he was difficult; it was a difficult situation. I don't want to do a puffery piece here, I want to be flat-out true: We had a difference in creative...
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    Komsomolskaya Pravda claimed that the widely cited achievements of Stakhanov were puffery. The paper insisted that Stakhanov had used a number of helpers on support...
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  • (Portuguese for 'peacock') Pavo (disambiguation) (Latin for 'peacock') Puffery This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Peacock...
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    that the widely propagandized personal achievements of Stakhanov were puffery. The paper insisted that Stakhanov had used a number of helpers on support...
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    Studies, 1987) pp. 1–57. Beringer, Alex. "Humbug History: The Politics of Puffery in Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy." Mark Twain Annual 14.1 (2016): 114–126. Online...
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    Fargo CEO Tim Sloan, arguing that he contradicted his lawyers' "corporate puffery". In April 2019, she questioned JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon. In May...
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    talk by the Kremlin of the rule of law or about modernisation will be puffery so long as Mr Khodorkovsky remains in jail." Khodorkovsky became eligible...
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  • New York real estate scene, where Trump established his wealth and where puffery abounds. Trump adopted his ghostwriter's phrase "truthful hyperbole" to...
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    30-second advertisement as being, "stuffed with Trump's signature misleading puffery". Additionally, original versions of the ad showed Trump shaking hands...
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