exaggerative
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of exaggerative
First recorded in 1790–1800; exaggerate + -ive
Example Sentences
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This is extravagantly exaggerative; and those who say it, moreover, often miss the two or three points of resemblance which really exist in the exaggeration.
From The Crimes of England by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
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
We may say with no exaggerative irony that the unconscious patrons of slavery were Huxley and Cobden.
From What I Saw in America by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Thus Thoreau was an exaggerative and a parabolical writer, not because he loved the literature of the East, but from a desire that people should understand and realise what he was writing.
From Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson
It is either something which does not need any grotesque and exaggerative description, or of which there already exists a grotesque and exaggerative description more native to our tongue and soil.
From What I Saw in America by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
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