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
“He’s a master exaggerator, been doing it his entire life,” Mr. Fleiss said.
From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2019
Nobody believes Dash, because he’s a serial exaggerator.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2017
If the exaggerator shrinks from this course his lie will not pass; it might have passed, and I venture a paradox, if it had been gigantic enough.
From A Novelist on Novels by George, Walter Lionel
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