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melodramatic

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As exuberant as I tend to be, I did feel “knight” would be too melodramatic.

But to say the capital teeters on the verge of collapse is both melodramatic and misleading.

And sports, if anything, just serves as a way to act out this competition on a more melodramatic stage.

But even paranoid melodramatic self-aggrandizers sniff out nefarious and tentacular plots from time to time.

The book is gritty without being noir, touching without being melodramatic.

Here was a melodramatic scene in which he not only was not playing a leading part, but did not even carry a banner.

That is one of the melodramatic bits, said Bobby, weakly, leaning against the wall for support.

I know nothing more melodramatic than certain of the plots of Shakespeare's plays.

Will anyone suggest to me the marriage of a girl of seventeen with a man over sixty is melodramatic.

The tales are told with a calmness and reserve that make most of Poe's seem somewhat boyish and melodramatic by comparison.

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On this page you'll find 35 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to melodramatic, such as: theatrical, artificial, blood-and-thunder, cliff-hanging, cloak-and-dagger, and exaggerated.

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

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