Ballyhooed

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English

Verb form

ballyhooed

1. Simple past and past participle of to ballyhoo

Adjective

ballyhooed

1. Sensationalised; presented with grand claims.
   • 1996 — Frasier episode 3.11

     Waitress: There's a man over there who says he's waiting for you.
     Niles: Ah. No doubt the much ballyhooed Bob.

   • 2005 — Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Malcolm Gladwell, p. 175

     "...viewers didn't hate them. They were just shocked by them. And all of the ballyhooed techniques used by the armies of market researchers at CBS utterly failed to distinguish between these two very different emotions."