exaggerate
Example Sentences
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Mr. Palmer made an exaggerated X across his chest with one hand.
From Literature
He argued the “Man of Steel” persona as “totally exaggerated,” he told the New York Times.
A later generation of sociologists might have diagnosed Göring’s martial flamboyance as a form of “homeovestism”—that is, exaggerated and often impractical gender-normative dress or behavior intended to signal elite social status.
Taxpayers shouldn’t be allowed to donate their old socks and claim that they were designer items, exaggerating the value of the deduction.
There was also a widely-held belief that migrants calling from small boats exaggerated the distress, meaning the Coastguard underestimated the emergency.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
