The Collaborative International Dictionary
ballyhoo \bal"ly*hoo\ v. t. [imp. & p. p. ballyhooed; p. pr. & vb. n. ballyhooing.] to advertize or publicize noisily or blatantly.
Wiktionary
sensationalise; presented with grand claims. v
(en-past of: ballyhoo)
Usage examples of "ballyhooed".
She learned that she had just missed a Wild West pageant, recreated from Earth's ancient past, as well as a much-ballyhooed match for the freehand middleweight championship of the Inner Frontier.
Changes were ballyhooed as measures to improve the legality of police forces, to make them more responsive to the citizenry.
Rather, it will follow naturally upon the gradual recognition that the overarching theme that directs the Archaic Revival is the idea/ideal of a vegetation Goddess, the Earth herself as the much ballyhooed Gaia--a fact well documented by nineteenth-century anthropologists, most notably Frazer, but recently given a new respectability by Riane Eisler, Marija Gimbutas, James Mellaart, and others.
Whatever their reasons, this is what the government ballyhooed to press and PTA, who trusted the government completely.