Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective That exaggerates; enlarging beyond bounds.
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- verb Present participle of
exaggerate .
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Examples
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Al Shabaab has criticized the aid groups for what it calls exaggerating the crisis and exploiting it for political aims.
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And I'm going to respond to your other comment here since I don't want to go around hitting reply on everything: you are once again exaggerating my point to fit your own dramatic view of "what pleco thinks."
I want you to stop stalking "overweight" women. - Feministing 2009
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I think perhaps the media is again exaggerating what they don't know as a fact.
Gibbs: Paterson re-election 'decision that he's going to make' 2009
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Conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organised resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more.
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Or perhaps more radically, it is that economists of either political stripe or any socio-economic class all have a vested interest in exaggerating the role of economic principles.
Daily Kos Falls Into My Trap, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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On the other hand, the source of the information sells extended warranties, so it has a vested interest in exaggerating the rate of failure. mark26 jjay1
Laptop-Reliability Study Highlights The Most Sturdy Laptop Makers | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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What do you call exaggerating for a decade, or continuing to exaggerate after you have decided to go with a replacement scam?
Would the Real "Michael Egnor" Please Stand Up? - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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What is the dexterous management of the more inartificial historians of Christianity, in exaggerating the numbers of the martyrs, compared to the unfair address with which Gibbon here quietly dismisses from the account all the horrible and excruciating tortures which fell short of death?
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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That's called exaggerating a small truth to obscure a larger untruth.
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I was exaggerating, which is a subtle agreement with the idea that Obamaians sometimes go overboard.
Obama's Victory Speech: "The Status Quo Is Fighting Back With Everything It's Got" 2009
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