overstatement in English

noun
1
the action of expressing or stating something too strongly; exaggeration.
a classic piece of overstatement

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "overstatement" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "overstatement", or refer to the context using the word "overstatement" in the English Dictionary.

1. 6 The " friends " was, of course, an overstatement.

2. 7 Overstatement will be your downfall.

3. 5 True emotion ought not to require overstatement.

4. 15 What's on your mind? - If you'll forgive the overstatement?

5. 2 It's an overstatement to say that the man's a fool.

6. It is not an overstatement to say a crisis is imminent.

7. 11 This may have been an improvement, but "breakthrough" was an overstatement.

8. This may have been an improvement, but "breakthrough" was an overstatement.

9. 8 Do you think the overstatement of freedom will cause high crime rate?

10. 1 It is not an overstatement to say a crisis is imminent.

11. 13 Both arguments have a measure of truth behind the obvious overstatement.

12. Accordingly, an adjustment has been made to take account of the risk of overstatement

13. 9 Valuation deals with potential overstatement and completeness with unrecorded transactions and files.

14. 3 It would be an overstatement to say that Lewis deserved to win the race.

15. As a result, the Panel adjusted the claim to offset such “risk of overstatement”.

16. Synonyms for Aggrandizement include boasting, braggadocio, embellishment, exaggeration, overstatement, puffery, elevation, ennoblement, exaltation and glorification

17. The President of the Treasury Board called the surplus simply "an overstatement of an actuarial liability."

18. 14 Deep Venous Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism in Trauma Patients: An Overstatement of the Problem?

19. 12 The notion that the Social Security system is facing a severe crisis is a vast and cynical overstatement.

20. That was a huge overstatement, but it at least demonstrates how widespread the discourse of political radicalism had become.

21. The Panel finds that further adjustments should be made for inadequate accounting for depreciation, overstatement and insufficient evidence

22. Accordingly, the Panel has made an adjustment to account for the risk of overstatement in the claimed amount

23. The Panel finds that further adjustments should be made for inadequate accounting for depreciation, overstatement and insufficient evidence.

24. 10 In this case,[www.Sentencedict.com] the overstatement of bad debt expense unjustifiably understates the present year's net income .

25. 4 That was a huge overstatement, but it at least demonstrates how widespread the discourse of political radicalism had become.

26. In 1990, there were 37,306 people identified as Centenarians in the census which is most likely an overstatement of the “true” number of Centenarians

27. This bit of blues-descended overstatement would do well as a setting for Kehinde Wiley’s inevitable portrait of West: Imagine Kanye, skin Asmolder in purples and blues, dressed in sightless

28. In certain situations, this could cause overstatement if the user abandons the web page after the Ad Manager ad tag was acted upon and the impression was counted, but prior to delivery of the ad content.

29. Other examples of overstatement of the Christocentric principle might be found in such well-known and respected commentators as Godet: Jesus had before him a grand field, from the Protevangelium, the first great Gospel of Genesis, down to Malachi.

30. SYNONYMY NOTE: Boast 1, the basic term in this list, merely suggests pride or satisfaction, as in one's deeds or abilities [you may well Boast of your efficiency]; brag suggests greater ostentation and overstatement [he bragged of what he would do in the race]; vaunt, a formal, literary term, implies greater suavity but more vainglory than either of the preceding [vaunt not in your triumph