flackery

flackery

English

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English flack
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āsjos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Old French -ie
Old French -eriebor.
Middle English -erie
English -ery
English flackery

    From flack + -ery.

    Noun

    flackery (usually uncountable, plural flackeries)

    1. The aggressive public relations activity associated with press agents
      • 1974 April 15, Robert Hughes, “The Instant Nostalgia of Pop”, in Time‎[1], archived from the original on 22 December 2008:
        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.

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