distortion
noun. deformity; falsification
double Dutch
noun. incomprehensible talk or writing
double-talk
noun. nonsense communicated
exaggeration
noun. overstatement, embellishment
- aggrandizement
- amplification
- baloney
- boasting
- caricature
- coloring
- crock
- elaboration
- embroidery
- emphasis
- enlargement
- exaltation
- excess
- extravagance
- fabrication
- falsehood
- fancy
- fantasy
- figure of speech
- fish story
- flight of fancy
- hogwash
- hyperbole
- inflation
- jazz
- line
- magnification
- misjudgment
- misrepresentation
- overemphasis
- overestimation
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- rant
- romance
- stretch
- tall story
- untruth
- whopper
- yarn
falderal
noun. folderol, foolishness
fiddle-faddle
noun. nonsense
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