exaggerate
Example Sentences
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Other online adverts we saw suggested the health risks of sunbeds were exaggerated or they promoted tanning sessions as safe or low risk.
From BBC
It turned out that nearly 90% of the people who claimed to have beaten the market had exaggerated their returns.
Mr. Palmer made an exaggerated X across his chest with one hand.
From Literature
He argued the “Man of Steel” persona as “totally exaggerated,” he told the New York Times.
A later generation of sociologists might have diagnosed Göring’s martial flamboyance as a form of “homeovestism”—that is, exaggerated and often impractical gender-normative dress or behavior intended to signal elite social status.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
