exaggerative
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of exaggerative
First recorded in 1790–1800; exaggerate + -ive
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Was it more than a figure of speech, an exaggerative personification under great emotion of what most people would call chance?
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie
The following graphic account will thrill every reader: The most exaggerative imagination cannot too strongly picture the awful harvest of death, the wreck which accompanied that terrible deluge last Friday afternoon.
From The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin by James Herbert Walker
Peron set down these stories to the exaggerative distortion of lovers of the marvellous, "of whom we counted some amongst us."
From Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia by Ernest Scott
He can be called exaggerative; but mere exaggeration conveys nothing of his typical talent.
From Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
American humour is purely exaggerative; Bret Harte's humour was sympathetic and analytical.
From Varied Types by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
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