exaggeration
noun
the act of exaggerating or overstating.
self-exaggeration
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a word derived from
exaggeration.
Example Sentences
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This spirit of self-exaggeration wrought its own misery, and drew down upon him terrible punishments; and this it did by vitiating and perverting his high powers.
From Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers by Benj. N. Martin
"France!" asserted Turnbull with a sort of rollicking self-exaggeration, very unusual with him, "France, which is one torrent of splendid scepticism from Abelard to Anatole France."
From The Ball and the Cross by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
But prosperity led to luxury, self-exaggeration, and enervating vices.
From Ancient States and Empires by John Lord
The long-continued peace and prosperity had engendered not merely the vices of self-interest, those destructive cankers which ever insure a ruin, but a general feeling of security and self-exaggeration.
From The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by John Lord
We palliate his self-exaggeration and pride, on account of the disgraceful flatteries he received on every hand.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 08 Great Rulers by John Lord
