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flackeries

flackeries is the plural of flackery.

Meaning of flackery

Noun

flackery (usually uncountable, plural flackeries)

  1. (usually) The aggressive public relations activity associated with press agents
    • The crass cultural chauvinism and blatant flackery that surrounded and fed American pop have not by any means gone from the art scene, but they are muted.1974 April 15, Robert Hughes, “The Instant Nostalgia of Pop”, in Time, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2008
    Synonyms:
    spin, PR, marketing

Questions about flackeries

What is flackeries the plural of?
Flackeries is the plural of flackery.

Words near flackeries in the dictionary

  1. flack-catcher
  2. flack-catchers
  3. flacked
  4. flacker
  5. flackered
  6. flackeries
  7. flackering
  8. flackers
  9. flackery
  10. flacket
  11. flackets

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