Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
hyperbolic - Same as
hyperbolic
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- adjective
Hyperbolic
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Examples
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Bloom knows how over the top all this is: “I do not fear being called hyperbolical, since the Critical Sublime is precisely that.”
Sacred Texts 2007
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I am not being even slightly hyperbolical or indulging in tongue in cheek rhetoric when asserting that the Democrats must pray for a national disaster.
Come Back July 20, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Quincey's hyperbolical description of the English mail-coach, one cannot down the desire to place that remarkable man on the pilot of the White
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But once again — and take it from someone who generally agrees with you — your satire comes across as petty, hyperbolical, and mean.
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And that someone who agrees with you (generally) can still think your post is hyperbolical, mean-spirited, and (perhaps most damning of all) not funny?
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That hyperbolical “old rule” should be approached with a huge grain of salt.
Unhappy historic anniversary yesterday: the Enabling Act of 1933 2010
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And that someone who agrees with you (generally) can still think your post is hyperbolical, mean-spirited, and (perhaps most damning of all) not funny?
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But once again — and take it from someone who generally agrees with you — your satire comes across as petty, hyperbolical, and mean.
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If it means that I grow a little too fervid, or perhaps even hyperbolical, in extolling my native land, I admit the full justice of the remark.
Nicholas Nickleby 2007
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All those of whom we read such [197] hyperbolical eulogiums, as of
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