exaggerative
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of exaggerative
First recorded in 1790–1800; exaggerate + -ive
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There was no doubt—making due allowance for Moongarr Bill's exaggerative optimism—that the find was a genuine one.
From Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life by Mrs. Campbell Praed
American humor is purely exaggerative; Bret Harte’s humor was sympathetic and analytical.
From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Henry Childs Merwin
We may say with no exaggerative irony that the unconscious patrons of slavery were Huxley and Cobden.
From What I Saw in America by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
He was by no means without humor,--a characteristic which shows in some of his portraits,--and sometimes realized the humorous aspects of his own intense and exaggerative temperament.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle
This is extravagantly exaggerative; and those who say it, moreover, often miss the two or three points of resemblance which really exist in the exaggeration.
From The Crimes of England by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
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