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tall talk
noun as in exaggeration
Weak matches
- aggrandizement
- amplification
- baloney
- boasting
- caricature
- crock
- elaboration
- embroidery
- enlargement
- exaltation
- excess
- extravagance
- fabrication
- falsehood
- fancy
- fantasy
- figure of speech
- fish story
- flight of fancy
- hogwash
- hyperbole
- hyperbolism
- inflation
- jazz
- line
- magnification
- misjudgment
- misrepresentation
- overemphasis
- overestimation
- overstatement
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- rant
- romance
- stretch
- tall story
- untruth
- whopper
- yarn
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Example Sentences
Tall talk and self-glorification were rampant, and no criticism was tolerated.
I perceive that you affect the opposite—a reaction on your part, I suppose, against tall talk and fine writing.
An upright and down square life is worth more than a whole ton of tall talk.
There has been no 'tall talk,' no over-statement; the speeches have been dignified, sensible, and practical.
But it was not their mockery of his tall talk that turned him aside; opposition invariably confirmed Turnbull.
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On this page you'll find 44 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tall talk, such as: aggrandizement, amplification, baloney, boasting, caricature, and crock.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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