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overblown
adjective as in excessive, too much
Example Sentences
The campaign for Measure G countered that the estimate was overblown.
Rogan made it clear that he thinks fears of a Trump dictatorship are overblown, noting that Trump has already held the office once.
"A lot of the stuff that happened around Partygate was not why I resigned - I thought it was overblown," she said.
She said the Conservatives "got a lot of things wrong" ahead of their historic election defeat, including on immigration and tax, but refused to give a "post-mortem" of her predecessors and claimed the Partygate scandal was "overblown".
Those who claim that it’s simply overblown rhetoric or who point to legal, economic, and social obstacles to implementing these threats must understand that not only are the legal barriers this time around much lower, but the previous time the administration tried to do it, just the threat was enough to incite panic.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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