exaggerative
Americanadjective
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Origin of exaggerative
First recorded in 1790–1800; exaggerate + -ive
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The following graphic account will thrill every reader: The most exaggerative imagination cannot too strongly picture the awful harvest of death, the wreck which accompanied that terrible deluge last Friday afternoon.
From The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin by Walker, James Herbert
It would be exaggerative, indeed irreverent, to say that he ever positively appeared again.
From The Innocence of Father Brown by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
American humour is purely exaggerative; Bret Harte's humour was sympathetic and analytical.
From Varied Types by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
Thus Thoreau was an exaggerative and a parabolical writer, not because he loved the literature of the East, but from a desire that people should understand and realise what he was writing.
From Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Stevenson, Robert Louis
And thus especially we say that the Yellow Press is exaggerative, over-emotional, illiterate, and anarchical, and a hundred other long words; whereas the only objection to it is that it tells lies.
From All Things Considered by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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