PUFFERIES Synonyms

• speaking of yourself in superlatives

• show off

• wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner

• an instance of boastful talk

• exhibiting self-importance

• extravagant exaggeration

• the act of making something more noticeable than usual

• making to seem more important than it really is

• a deliberately false or improbable account

• writing in a fictional form

• the act of making something (a product) from raw materials

• the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)

• the deliberate act of deviating from the truth

• a false statement

• the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting

• a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact

• a deliberately false or improbable account

• excessive or insincere praise

• a general and progressive increase in prices

• (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang

• lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity

• the act of filling something with air

• a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth

• Norwegian diplomat who was the first Secretary General of the United Nations (1896-1968)

• position or manner in which something is situated

• be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position

• be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position

• originate (in)

• be and remain in a particular state or condition

• tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive

• have a place in relation to something else

• assume a reclining position

• a false or unsupportable quality

• the advancing of a claim

• the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)