puff piece
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.54 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A journalistic form of puffery; an article or story of exaggerated praise that often ignores or downplays opposing viewpoints or evidence to the contrary.
Informal
Example Sentences
- "That's your first question? I thought this was supposed to be a puff piece."
- "The magazine had sent David Blum to Los Angeles to profile Emilio Estevez, arguably the most famous of the actors in Joel Schumacher's recently released St. Elmo's Fire, and what had been pitched as a typical puff piece quickly warped into a scathing portrayal that soon became scandalous."
- "While I don’t think Chozick’s profile was in any way a puff piece, I understand the anger it has generated. After all, not many mothers facing prison are given a splashy redemption photoshoot in a major paper, are they?"