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Meanings of overstatement in English

Portuguese
exagero
Catalan
exageració

Making to seem more important than it really is.

      exagero
      Usage of overstatement in English
      1
      In an era given to wild overstatement, the words were vanishingly mild.
      The Irish Times
      2
      What part of that particular overstatement could have turned in her favour?
      The water room
      3
      The overstatement may yet turn out to be smaller than initially estimated.
      Reuters
      4
      One of the characteristics of a legend is its overstatement of fact.
      Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year
      5
      It's no overstatement to say that we are all obsessed with sleep.
      News.com.au
      6
      It is no overstatement to speak of the aura of his paintings.
      The Guardian
      7
      It was an overstatement, of course, but it always made Bek feel good.
      Ilse Witch
      8
      Is it, so to speak, a case of gross overstatement or gross understatement?
      Reuters
      9
      It said the accounting overstatement was limited to the windows business.
      Reuters
      10
      It would not be an overstatement to call it a crisis.
      The myth of a christian religion: losing your religion for the b...
      11
      This was a childish overstatement, and that doesn't help anyone either.
      Bad science
      12
      I've got a plan. A gigantic overstatement, but it sounded good.
      11/22/63
      13
      Josh Kennedy could become a legend of West Coast Eagles football An overstatement?
      The Guardian
      14
      But then Michael Schumacher is a man rarely given to overstatement.
      The Irish Times
      15
      Even to say I chose to go there is an overstatement.
      The Irish Times
      16
      To call this a game is a bit of an overstatement.
      Wired
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