exaggerator
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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A habitual exaggerator, he boasted that all four of his grandparents had been born in Manhattan; in fact only one was even born in America.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
He calls Stepp "the biggest exaggerator I've ever met in my life".
From BBC • Sep. 28, 2021
As for Hendrix, even apart from the nonsense on his Facebook page, he is a chronic exaggerator.
From Slate • Mar. 19, 2018
Nobody believes Dash, because he’s a serial exaggerator.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2017
I was never so explicitly and categorically called a liar in my life; and he doubtless went home and told his family of the magnificent Western exaggerator whom he had met "down to the depot."
From The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Robinson, Harry Perry
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