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am exaggerating

  • present progressive of exaggerate (1st person singular).

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I am exaggerating about how easy it would be, but only a little bit.

From Slate Mar. 28, 2025

Even the basic facts are too dark to be effective: when I talk about what I’ve seen, patients think I am exaggerating or trying to scare them.

From Slate Jan. 12, 2022

He thinks I am exaggerating and refuses to sleep elsewhere.

From Slate Sep. 22, 2015

Perhaps people will cry out against me that I am morbid, hysterical, that it is a monstrous slander, that I am exaggerating.

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

In case the reader may think I am exaggerating I append the following cutting from the "Congressional Record," vol. xxiii.,

From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 by Furniss, Harry