Thesaurus / exaggerate
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Hindenburg also panned the Nikola One, the company’s first semi truck, calling it “not a real truck” and said it corroborated a Bloomberg story from June about the company exaggerating its capabilities.NIKOLA RELEASES FULLER DENIAL OF SHORT SELLER HINDENBURG’S ALLEGATIONSRADMARYASEPTEMBER 14, 2020FORTUNE
In June, Bloomberg News reported that, according to people familiar with the matter, Milton had exaggerated the capabilities of its debut big rig during an unveiling event in December 2016.NIKOLA SHARES SLUMP AFTER BLANKET DENIAL OF SHORT-SELLER REPORTRADMARYASEPTEMBER 11, 2020FORTUNE
Street artists often take news stories, rumours and public information and reflect and exaggerate them.CORONAVIRUS MURALS: INSIDE THE WORLD OF PANDEMIC-INSPIRED STREET ARTLGBTQ-EDITORMAY 19, 2020NO STRAIGHT NEWS
Concerns and anxiety can sometimes tip into the unhelpful range, however, when your mind exaggerates a threat, explains Lee, the psychologist.HOW TO COPE AS COVID-19 IMPOSES SOCIAL DISTANCINGSHEILA MULROONEY ELDREDMARCH 23, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTS
So there’s a supposed psychological phenomenon — bystander apathy — that turns out to be misinterpreted, or exaggerated.5 PSYCHOLOGY TERMS YOU’RE PROBABLY MISUSING (EP. 334 REBROADCAST)STEPHEN J. DUBNERJANUARY 9, 2020FREAKONOMICS
Consequently there is so universal misery that no words could exaggerate it to your Majesty.THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, 1493-1898, VOLUME XX, 1621-1624VARIOUS
It is almost impossible to describe them without appearing to exaggerate.SHOWELL'S DICTIONARY OF BIRMINGHAMTHOMAS T. HARMAN AND WALTER SHOWELL
Come and see me, we will laugh and talk, but don't exaggerate what I am worth, for I am worth very little.CAMILLE (LA DAME AUX CAMILIAS)ALEXANDRE DUMAS, FILS
The Félibres put forth great claims for the richness of their vocabulary, and they undoubtedly exaggerate.FRDRIC MISTRALCHARLES ALFRED DOWNER
Monsieur has been somewhat misled, it would seem, by his friend who was witty at my expense and inclined to exaggerate.THE LIGHT THAT LURESPERCY BREBNER
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
JUNE 13, 2021
WORDS RELATED TO EXAGGERATE
- adding to
- adorning
- aggrandizing
- amplifying
- appreciating
- augmenting
- beautifying
- booming
- boosting
- building up
- complementing
- elevating
- embroidering
- enlarging
- exaggerating
- exalting
- flesh out
- heightening
- increasing
- intensifying
- lifting
- magnifying
- padding
- pyramiding
- raising
- reinforcing
- strengthening
- swelling
- upgrading
- add to
- aggrandize
- amplify
- augment
- beef up
- blow up
- boost
- broaden
- build
- bulk
- develop
- diffuse
- dilate
- distend
- elaborate
- elongate
- embroider
- exaggerate
- expand
- expatiate
- extend
- give details
- grow
- grow larger
- heighten
- inflate
- jack up
- jazz up
- lengthen
- magnify
- make larger
- mount
- multiply
- pad
- pyramid
- rise
- slap on
- snowball
- spread
- stretch
- swell
- upsurge
- wax
- widen
- adulterates
- belies
- changes
- colors
- cons
- contorts
- contradicts
- contravenes
- cooks
- counterfeits
- deacons
- deceives
- denies
- distorts
- doctors
- dresses up
- embroiders
- equivocates
- exaggerates
- fakes
- fakes it
- fibs
- forges
- four-flushes
- frames up
- garbles
- glosses
- lies
- misquotes
- misstates
- palters
- perverts
- phony up
- prevaricates
- promotes
- puts on an act
- salts
- tamper with
- traverses
- trumps up
- twists
- warps
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