exaggerative
Americanadjective
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Origin of exaggerative
First recorded in 1790–1800; exaggerate + -ive
Example Sentences
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Above all, I shall probably make generalisations that are much too general; and are insufficient through being exaggerative.
From What I Saw in America by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
Yet for once the press had not been so exaggerative.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton
From the use of superlative expressions in their conversation, they naturally adopt an exaggerative style in writing, and the minor poets and provincial orators of the Republic are distinguished for this hyperbolical tone.
From Nature and Human Nature by Haliburton, Thomas Chandler
A sensitive, susceptible, exaggerative, earnest man: a megalomaniac, who would be lost without a sense of humor.
From Man and Superman by Shaw, Bernard
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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