exaggerated

He starred as Manchester music mogul Tony Wilson in Michael Winterbottom's 2002 film 24 Hour Party People, and then alongside friend and fellow comic Rob Brydon as exaggerated versions of themselves in The Trip.

“Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated,” says the text over the photo, referencing a famous and famously misquoted line from the American literary icon.

When suffering is measured, it becomes harder to dismiss; when it is left uncounted, it drifts back into the realm of anecdote, where policymakers can insist the problem is exaggerated, isolated or even imaginary.

And exaggerated claims to have got rid of the Irish Sea border still work against the DUP and work for the TUV.

He was found by the Bar Standards Board to have "deliberately exaggerated his academic achievements and qualifications in an attempt to improve his tenancy prospects".