exaggerating

English

Adjective

exaggerating (comparative more exaggerating, superlative most exaggerating)

1. Given to exaggeration or serving to exaggerate; overblown.
   • 1846, Gabriel Surenne, A practical Grammar of French Rhetoric, page 264:

     Bombastic Style is an affectation in the composition, either in presenting simple or common ideas under sonorous and pompous expressions, or in speaking of things which have but a vain appearance of grandeur in the most exaggerating manner.

   • 1864, Paul L. Sandberg, God's Way to Man in Olden Times:

     Then there are many men in the world, who, from a sincere desire of doing good, are, to say the least, very exaggerating in their phraseology, exalting mere indications of good into realities; and leaving altogether out of sight the reasoning of St. Paul on the subject, in the Epistle to the Romans, the 3rd chapter and 7th verse.

   • 1882, Journal of the Senate of Minnesota Sitting as a High Court of Impeachment for the Trial of Hon. E. St Julien Cox, page 2466:

     Now, I say it don't show anything, it is not a material point; but it shows how ridiculous men will be in their testimony, when actuated by violent motives, and it is one thing that I have noticed, gentlemen, that as a general thing lawyers are more ridiculous and more exaggerating when they give testimony than any other class of men.

   • 2023, Alison Bellringer, The Bronson Escapades:

     Bridget fanned her face in a very exaggerating way.

Derived terms

• exaggeratingly
• unexaggerating

 

Verb

exaggerating

1. present participle and gerund of exaggerate