exaggerating
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Given to exaggeration or serving to exaggerate; overblown.
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Given to exaggeration or serving to exaggerate; overblown.
Bombastic Style is an affectation in the composition, either in presenting simple or common ideas under sonorous and pompous expressions, or in speaking of things which have but a vain appearance of grandeur in the most exaggerating manner.
Then there are many men in the world, who, from a sincere desire of doing good, are, to say the least, very exaggerating in their phraseology, exalting mere indications of good into realities; and leaving altogether out of sight the reasoning of St. Paul on the subject, in the Epistle to the Romans, the 3rd chapter and 7th verse.
Now, I say it don't show anything, it is not a material point; but it shows how ridiculous men will be in their testimony, when actuated by violent motives, and it is one thing that I have noticed, gentlemen, that as a general thing lawyers are more ridiculous and more exaggerating when they give testimony than any other class of men.
Bridget fanned her face in a very exaggerating way.
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Também uma forma de exaggeratepresent participle and gerund of exaggerate
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- comparativo
- more exaggerating
- superlativo
- most exaggerating
exaggerating · Given to exaggeration or serving to exaggerate; overblown.
exaggeration · The act of heaping or piling up.exam · Shortened form of examineexamination · The act of examining.