exaggerative
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of exaggerative
First recorded in 1790–1800; exaggerate + -ive
Example Sentences
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The tender passion is always a strangely exaggerative one.
From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Miller, Hugh
They were evidently not only expansive but exaggerative; and perhaps it was not only in battle that they drew the long bow.
From A Short History of England by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
More than this it would be exaggerative to say, and a mere anticipation of the really decisive events afterwards.
From A Short History of England by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
I am afraid it is impossible to explain this monster amid the exaggerative sects and the eccentric clubs of my country.
From The Ball and the Cross by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
This disappointment was only the natural result of his own impracticable temperament, but to Haydon's exaggerative sense the whole world seemed joined in a conspiracy against him.
From Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century by Paston, George
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