exaggerative
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of exaggerative
First recorded in 1790–1800; exaggerate + -ive
Example Sentences
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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
The warriors who had come from the shore recounted, with their own exaggerative additions, the miracle of the six-shooter and the dynamite cartridge.
From The Great Taboo by Allen, Grant
We may say with no exaggerative irony that the unconscious patrons of slavery were Huxley and Cobden.
From What I Saw in America by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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 Merwin, Henry Childs
Verbally considered, Carlyle's French Revolution was more revolutionary than the real French Revolution: and if Carrier, in an exaggerative phrase, empurpled the Loire with carnage, Turner almost literally set the Thames on fire.
From The Victorian Age in Literature by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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