ballyhoo artist

1. 1.

   someone who uses exaggerated or lurid material in order to gain public attention

   Synonymssensationalist

   Broaderpublicist

Questions about ballyhoo artist

What does ballyhoo artist mean?

ballyhoo artist means "someone who uses exaggerated or lurid material in order to gain public attention".

What is another word for ballyhoo artist?

Close synonyms include sensationalist. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ballyhoo artist a common word?

ballyhoo artist is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.