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exaggerated

If something is exaggerated, the description given of something is much more than it actually is; very enlarged or increased a lot. Someone giving an account of something that is stretched so as to make it sound more exciting.

exaggerated

represented as greater than is true or reasonable an exaggerated opinion of oneself (= enlarged) enlarged to an abnormal degree thick lenses exaggerated the size of her eyes

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Simple sentences

You may depend upon it that the story is exaggerated.
The report exaggerated the capacity of the hall.
The announcement exaggerated the number of casualties.
This description of events is completely exaggerated, even if it's essentially true.
He suffers from a chronically exaggerated opinion of himself. Wherever he goes, he thinks no one can hold a candle to him.
The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.
I exaggerated.
Tom exaggerated.
Mary fluctuates between having an exaggerated sense of her own importance and an inferiority complex.
We exaggerated.
Maybe I exaggerated.

Movie subtitles

Let's say slightly exaggerated.
Lotta, you always exaggerated.
Everything exaggerated.
I gave him one mark for Latin translation and he exaggerated it into a seven.
But I'm also convinced that stories of this creature. have been so greatly exaggerated in the telling and the retelling. that the simple folk of this neighbourhood now believe him to have been. the most fiendish monster that ever walked this earth.
I'm afraid I sort of exaggerated in my letters.
Don't you think the heroics were a trifle exaggerated?
I'm afraid I exaggerated that part of it a little bit.
There's something in the atmosphere that makes everything seem exaggerated.
Wouldn't it be sort of exaggerated with my own sister?
I know it's probably exaggerated.
Nothing exaggerated, of course.
The journalists may have exaggerated in their deductions, but everything makes us think we have come across a living prehistoric being from the early geological eras.
I'm so glad he exaggerated.
My client. -Your client is a great actress. I'm sure some of her tears are real, but her exaggerated emotions are characteristic of her trade.
German bulletins are so exaggerated.
I in fact managed to engage a star directly from the Adelphi Theater. 'Directly' may be a bit exaggerated.
Believe me, the excitement is exaggerated.
I have exaggerated everything so much, that nobody will be recognizable.
Even her love for Bob was exaggerated.
They exaggerated a bit.
Oh, perhaps it's been exaggerated.
He may have exaggerated a little. But there is some truth!
Although I think you have an exaggerated idea of the power of my column.
His news was always exaggerated.
Well, it doesn't look as though the old rascal exaggerated his circulation figures.
It's supposed to be a little exaggerated.
A little exaggerated.
Exaggerated.
You managed to overcome your exaggerated sense of pity?
So was my first husband, but he always exaggerated his news.
Better exaggerated news than no news at all.
Personally, I could give you news that isn't exaggerated at all.
But 800 lira is not an exaggerated price!
In any case, for several days, we all got along quite pleasantly, each engrossed in his own pursuits, as well as chores around the house, to which we purposely attached exaggerated importance.
German sources there are saying that our claims are wildly exaggerated.

News and current affairs

In some instances, reports of rights violations in the US are exaggerated.
An exaggerated sense of lost glory helped incite the French Army to fake the evidence that convicted Captain Alfred Dreyfus of spying for the Kaiser.
Rather than encourage the unions with exaggerated talk of strong European growth and inflationary excess - and disrespect them with threats and interventions - Trichet should speak softly and let nature take its course.
Almost all climate models are running far too hot, meaning that the real challenge of global warming has been exaggerated.
Exaggerated importance is one kind of bubble that central bankers should always be eager to burst.
Climate evangelism is an apt description of what the IPCC has been up to, for it has exaggerated some of the ramifications of climate change in order to make politicians take note.
On the other side people were given exaggerated and even falsified stories of what had actually happened.
Moreover, Bush's exaggerated rhetoric was often at odds with his practice, giving rise to charges of hypocrisy.
This perception is exaggerated, especially in the US.
In my view, the pessimists have exaggerated the risks of deflation, which is why their recent forecasts have missed the mark.
The strength of the dollar has similarly distorted investment decisions, and the same kinds of exaggerated swings in exchange rates in emerging markets have contributed to the boom-bust cycles in Asia and Latin America in the past five years.
Perhaps these words sound exaggerated to cynical ears.
But this fear is probably exaggerated.
Once we saw our exaggerated hopes for our investments failing, we began to consider our other sources of income and wealth, only to confront the worldwide economic slowdown that began in 2001.
The Iraq war was ostensibly launched because of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction, yet each passing day suggests that the threat was exaggerated.
Exaggerated fear of outside enemies has always been part of the American political landscape.
National governments' vulnerability to the financial markets and their exaggerated interest rates must be reduced.
But the feared deterioration in loan quality is exaggerated.
But the US knows that al-Qaeda is an enemy of convenience for Saleh, and that the danger to the US from post-Saleh chaos in Yemen is exaggerated.
Europe undoubtedly needs Russian gas, but fears that this gives Russia a monopolistic stranglehold over Europe are exaggerated.
The truth probably lies somewhere in the middle - the microfinance sector has made some mistakes, which politicians have exaggerated in an effort to destroy an industry that undermines them by making the poor more independent.
But when he and others advocate it to the exclusion of alternatives, they end up communicating a vastly exaggerated degree of confidence about what course of action is required.
The predictability bubble is perhaps the trickiest to navigate, though my instinct is that less would be more. Exaggerated importance is one kind of bubble that central bankers should always be eager to burst.
The dangers should not be exaggerated.
In France and Germany, Holland and Sweden the subject uppermost on many people's minds--immigration--was either ignored or exaggerated.
It exaggerated the weakness of America, which remains the world's only superpower.

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