ballyhooed
/bˈælihˈud/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.52 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Sensationalized; presented with grand claims.
verb
simple past and past participle of ballyhoo
Example Sentences
- "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.""
- ""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.""
- "Behind the scenes, the system had quietly punched a neat loophole into the ballyhooed reform."
Etymology
Etymology tree English ballyhoo Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English ballyhooed From ballyhoo + -ed.
Inflected Forms
more ballyhooed (comparative)
most ballyhooed (superlative)