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exaggeratedly

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It’s impossible to persuasively describe the bad-good charms of “Madame Web,” an appreciation of which requires the kind of sensibility that celebrates the unnatural, the artificial, the exaggeratedly “off.”

Male wolf spiders are especially vulnerable to birds when they try to woo a mate with a flashy display, which involves drumming their exaggeratedly furry front legs on the leaves in front of them.

That feeling manifested — exaggeratedly so — driving on the freeway.

She’s crouching by the side of my tub, gripping the edge, her eyes locked with mine and breathing exaggeratedly in sync with me — as if coaching me to give birth.

Within Asteroid City, everyone seems to speak in an exaggeratedly actorly way — which is really just a short step from the glib deadpan in which Anderson’s characters usually speak — like they’re putting on a show.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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