Definitions
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- noun The sort of
language used inadvertisements , typified by bold claims and optimistic encouragement.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Forgive the gauche adspeak, but: you are your own brand.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Audience Development: Critical to Every Writer’s Future 2010
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We owe it to him and to ourselves to go back and take a good hard look at what he created out of the adspeak and hyperbole that passes for discourse in American life.
Deborah Emin: Another Prophet Dies: Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) 2008
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And yes, it really is a bit of a greenspeak/adspeak buzzlingomutant, isn't it?
Sustain That Brand 2007
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"Live young," announces the Gallic-tinged voiceover, in what may be genuine broken English but is more likely another example of adspeak putting the mother tongue through the mangle.
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Panelists debated the effectiveness of "having a conversation" with customers, adspeak for providing extensive details based on their interests.
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