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Crude WhatsApp exchanges were framed as entirely typical of the style of many on the messaging service; indulging in the "ephemeral, pejorative, hyperbolical" as he put it.

From BBC • Dec. 6, 2023

"It's easily the most hyperbolical and glitzily exciting festival to be at," says Toback.

From Seattle Times • May 13, 2013

Statius had undoubtedly invention, ability, and spirit; but his images are gigantic and outrageous, and his sentiments tortured and hyperbolical.

From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Pope, Alexander

As gentlemen grew hyperbolical and fantastic in their professions of regard and devotion, feminine coquettishness and love of admiration naturally became fastidious and exacting.

From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by McLaughlin, Edward Tompkins

And the only compensation to the hyperbolical taste of the race is that they decorate it, on state and ceremonious occasions, with the musical prefix of "La siempre fidel�sima Isla de Cuba."

From To Cuba and Back by Dana, Richard Henry