exaggerations in English

noun

1

a statement that represents something as better or worse than it really is.

it would be an exaggeration to say I had morning sickness, but I did feel queasy

synonyms: overstatement, overemphasis, magnification, amplification, aggrandizement, dramatization, elaboration, embellishment, embroidery, hyperbole, overkill, gilding the lily

noun

overstatement, overemphasis, magnification, amplification, aggrandizement, dramatization, elaboration, embellishment, embroidery, hyperbole, overkill, gilding the lily
overstatement, magnification
hyperbole

Use "exaggerations" in a sentence

1. Are they terms of endearment ? epithets? exclamations? exaggerations?

2. A smear campaign involves lies, exaggerations, and cultivation of mistrust toward the victim

3. Overemphasis, hamming it up, leads to the exaggerations of satire, cartooning, melodrama and farce.

4. My sense of proportion left me; my judgment took on the grotesque exaggerations of a cruel cartoon.

5. What words have the most powerful effect on you? Are they terms of endearment? epithets? exclamations? exaggerations?

6. So, yes, Western humor is full of Boosterisms, exaggerations, lies and damned lies, but what else is new? It’s an election year

7. After surveying 16 early reports, Lt. Col. George D. Garrett estimated that the sightings were not imaginary or exaggerations of natural phenomena.

8. 8 reviews of Apun Sheena, MD "The earlier review consists of hearsay and exaggerations from a disgruntled former patient of another doctor: 1) One can't blame Dr Apun for Dr Reyes' sudden retirement