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inflated

When something is inflated, it is full of air. The inflated balloons were used as decorations for the event. When something is inflated, it is higher than the true amount of it. The results of the survey were inflated to exaggerate the impact of smoking on people. Something with a higher cost compared to others. The inflated price of this restaurant made it lose business over time.

inflated

(= hyperbolic) enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness a hyperbolic style (= high-flown, high-sounding) pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals) high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school a high-sounding dissertation on the means to attain social revolution

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Simple sentences

Have you ever inflated a balloon as big as this one?
The basketball needs to be inflated.
The frog inflated himself more and more, until finally he burst.
The tourists camped in the meadow, unpacked their sleeping-bags, and inflated their air-beds.

Movie subtitles

Not at today's inflated prices.
Or has he got the exaggerated manliness. of the West Point position with the inflated chest. and the held-in belly, you know, and the hard expression?
He always did have an inflated opinion of himself.
It's inflated.
You know, inflated bodies. Airheads.
Airheads, inflated bodies.
And so, Sinbad filled his powerful lungs. and inflated the great balloons of Nadir's flying machine.
Ben, we've inflated the budget to two million now.
His absurdly inflated ego would never permit it.
We can diffuse it before it becomes inflated.
This whole area is full of those inflated pompouses.
At least sit and not lie like an inflated whore.
Oh, just an old stone carver who sells a little work. at inflated prices.
Sure, I'm all dizzy and nauseous but where's the inflated sense of self-esteem?
Just wait 'til you get back home, you inflated tadpole.
That's better. - You're an inflated blimp!
It could be that you have some vague notion in that inflated ego of yours of abolishing him. You know, the godlike gesture to get me back again.
Tell me what an over-inflated ego stems from.
If he's a businessman, he'll refuse inflated or illicit profits.
Perhaps they can do something about your over-inflated ego.
They pay inflated prices for metal goods. They are overcharged for horses too.
Check if the tires are inflated property 2 back to 1.8.
Balloons inflated in their own likeness.
The scientific council found the idea over-inflated.
Our inflated bodies. are approximately 11 inches thick. but without air in them, they'd only be 7 inches thick- - Give or take an inch.
Our staff is inflated, as everywhere else, you know.
Tell me what an over-inflated ego stems from. Now, listen here!
How? - I sell books at inflated rates.
The cretin's mouth is full of such inflated terminology.
Well, he might turn out to be an idealist. a sincere idealist who has many contacts or an inflated balloon which will deflate.
We salute you, our half-inflated dark lord!
His head just inflated like a balloon.
I thought things were going to work out for him, until the day he over-inflated her.
Oh, heh. I thought things would work out until he over-inflated her.
A pair of tits as hard as newly inflated tires. and a big dick as well.
I don't like to speak ill of the dead but between you and me, and whoever's listening David Chan was a self-inflated, pig-headed asshole who no doubt deserved whatever came his way.
I think the list of commandments was deliberately and artificially inflated to get it up to ten.
It's a political document artificially inflated to sell better.

News and current affairs

That way, the power of competitive markets can ensure that, once a drug is developed, it is made available at the lowest possible price - not at an inflated monopoly price.
A quarter of the labor force and half of Spain's youth are unemployed, reflecting the country's loss of competitiveness in the wake of the real-estate bubble inflated by cheap euro credit in the pre-crisis period.
Simply put, surging capital flows into the US artificially held down interest rates and inflated asset prices, leading to laxity in banking and regulatory standards and, ultimately, to a meltdown.
There was a housing bubble, and loans were made on the basis of inflated prices.
Likewise, only by adopting such a strategy can the US start to compress the Pentagon's inflated budget and begin to address its many domestic woes.
This lowered interest rates in the so-called PIIGS countries (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain) and inflated housing bubbles just as reunification costs were forcing Germany to tighten its belt.
Rather, governments should stop basing their legitimacy on inflated growth prospects.
The bubble is inflated further by the asymmetry between those who bet that prices will rise and buy, and those who forecast a fall, but stay out because to sell short is too costly.
A chain of additional losses occurs when the inflated assets have been purchased with borrowed money.
There may be a silver lining to our inflated sense of understanding.
But, while the industry faces the threat of inflated gas prices from around the world, its concerns closer to home are the abundance of EU and national energy regulations.
Talk to World Bank and WTO officials, and you will get an earful of inflated claims about the benefits that a successful Doha round would bring.
Exchange rates have a nasty habit of overshooting their equilibrium values, then knifing back on countries, especially those who have been spending too much based on inflated income valuations.
In most advanced economies, bubbles are being inflated by very low short- and long-term interest rates.
Britain joined America's Iraq adventure with the same inflated perceptions of its military capacity and diplomatic clout that trapped Bush.
That helped Germany and France, but it also inflated real-estate bubbles in Spain and Ireland.
But few people dared ask tough questions when confidence picked up again, as when a housing bubble was inflated on the rubble of collapsed technology stocks.
Meanwhile, the bulk of its obligations are social security and health care, which cannot be inflated away.
Kan's status quo approach to alliance management won't hold up long, because Hatoyama's bungling has inflated Okinawans' expectations about evicting the Marines.
Obama's ascension to the US presidency represents a revolutionary landmark in America's history that should not be allowed to fall victim to inflated expectations.
Even though GDP is artificially inflated, some useful activities are carried out.

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