fluff

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For example, the Grumman job has a lot of fluff.

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Quick take

any light downy material

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noun

any light downy material

noun

something of little value or significance

noun

a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for fluff.

noun

any light downy material

noun

something of little value or significance

See also: bagatelle, frippery, frivolity

noun

a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)

verb

make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"

See also: botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, muff, blow, flub, spoil, bungle, bollix, bollocks

verb

erect or fluff up; "the bird ruffled its feathers"

verb

ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect

Example sentences

For example, the Grumman job has a lot of fluff.

" The first line of his talk is a bit fluffy, but I don't see anything else here that isn't objectively true.

Let's all pat ourselves on the back with a fluffy blog post about how jolly wonderful we are.

However, it is about 17 minutes long which a whole bunch of political stuff which may be viewed as fluff.

Text in sidebars won't be read by around half your customers, because usually it's meaningless fluff.

It barely seems to appeal to veteran Lisp programmers because there's little depth and lots of the aforementioned fluff.

Don't spend a whole lot of time with some broad marketing message that everyone will immediately denounce as meaningless fluff anyway.

AdBlock became popular as a direct result of the proliferation of websites that were 20% content and 80% advertising, fluff, and nonsense.

In real life, when people I have discussions with consistently detract from the value, they get left out to some extent, or if I'm in a group where fluffy comments are prioritized, I leave, and eat lunch with other people.

Every profession I have even a passing familiarity with is absolutely chockers with self-congratulatory fluff.

Or is there some amount of crossover between inventing the future and merely playing around?Instead the top comment is the forum analogue of a fluff post: a cynical dismissal based on some presumed bad intention on the writer's part.

I'm a "scientist" and I get to sift through a lot of hype on a daily basis; what I appreciate most are focused rational arguments, even if I ultimately disagree; I don't like fluff, even if I've used it from time to time, and certainly I've fallen for it.

Opening with "Rocketr is a bottom-up approach to knowledge management" - this is an entirely useless fluff sentence, tells nobody anything, doesn't provide a useful frame of reference for what's coming next... I feel like the story here is that Mr. Peek needed a harsher critic when he was practicing.

I also believe SpaceX runs a largely virtualised command centre.>Self-driving cars...every single innovation in the car industry that does not go towards electric self driving cars is just useless fluff at this pointImagine a bond that pays, into perpetuity, 100% of the profits earned by auto manufacturers worldwide on non-self-driving cars.