exaggerate
verb (used with object)
to magnify beyond the limits of truth; overstate; represent disproportionately.
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His simple style and plain speech were eminently in harmony with his truthful, unexaggerating nature, and showed that he neither wrote nor spoke for effect, but simply to utter truth.
From The Personal Life of David Livingstone by William Garden Blaikie