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exaggeration

exaggeration
Zelfstandig naamwoord
    • the act of making something more noticeable than usual
    "the dance involved a deliberate exaggeration of his awkwardness"

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    exaggeration
    Zelfstandig naamwoord
    • hyperbool
    • extravagant exaggeration

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    exaggeration
    Zelfstandig naamwoord
      • making to seem more important than it really is

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      1. I think that's an exaggeration.
      2. He has a tendency toward exaggeration.
      3. What he said was a slight exaggeration.
      4. It is no exaggeration to call him a genius.
      5. It is no exaggeration to say that he is a genius.
      6. There is rarely a more beautiful exaggeration in the world than gratitude.
      7. It is no exaggeration to say that she is an angel.
      8. It's not an exaggeration to say that Mrs. Smith is addicted to TV.
      9. It is no exaggeration to say that he is a first-rate writer.
      10. It's not an exaggeration to state that he is a genius.
      11. It is no exaggeration to say that, as far as he was concerned, his wife was life itself to him.
      12. The American news is reporting that Hurricane Irene is as big as Europe, which is a bit of an exaggeration.
      13. "A passionate kiss scene in a school corridor ... I've heard all about it!" "It wasn't passionate! That's an exaggeration..."
      14. It would not be an exaggeration say that Augustine's thought had an influence not only on Christianity but on the whole of Western thought.
      15. Those were drinking days, and most men drank hard. So very great is the improvement Time has brought about in such habits, that a moderate statement of the quantity of wine and punch which one man would swallow in the course of a night, without any detriment to his reputation as a perfect gentleman, would seem, in these days, a ridiculous exaggeration.