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Meanings of gross exaggeration in English

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Usage of gross exaggeration in English
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And yet there was no gross exaggeration in the narrative.
Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam
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Suggestions that they were watering down gun laws was a " gross exaggeration".
The Guardian
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Curr (I., 237) objects to this picture as a gross exaggeration.
Primitive Love and Love-Stories
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I think one might say negative, without gross exaggeration.
The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him
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Cool facts and figures may save people with genuine claims from gross exaggeration and consequent ridicule.
The Irish Times
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Likewise, AOL's claim that Nieves cost the company a cool half-a-million bucks is a gross exaggeration.
Wired
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These were more than inflated job titles, but also included gross exaggeration of qualifications and experience.
The South African
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Security officials said that was a gross exaggeration.
The Irish Times
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But this was a gross exaggeration; she only tried to hang by her legs from it.
One Third Off
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The US is like .2 percent ( gross exaggeration) of the population of the earth.
Ebony
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You will reply that in that case it must all be gross exaggeration on Lillie's part.
The Dangerous Age: Letters and Fragments from a Woman's Diary
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Then the expression "People of Paris," is a gross exaggeration.
Paris under the Commune / The Seventy-Three Days of the Second S...
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What was once a "frigid falsehood" had been modified to mean a " gross exaggeration."
The Siege of Kimberley / Its Humorous and Social Side; Anglo-Boe...
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There was always a gross exaggeration in the reports.)
Ismailia
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A correspondent, writing upon House of Commons' notepaper, assures us that the above passage is a gross exaggeration.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 25, 1917
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To say that 60 per cent are "singled out" in any given situation is a gross exaggeration.
The Irish Times
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