Exaggerate

Examples

• You exaggerate fearfully, she said in a faint, weary voice; but I cannot enter into my defence--it is not worth doing. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Sir James's brow had a little crease in it, a little depression of the eyebrow, which he seemed purposely to exaggerate as he answered. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Indeed, indeed, you exaggerate, I heard him say. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Don't exaggerate, missy. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• What feeling I had on that occasion, Monsieur--and pardon me, if I say, you immensely exaggerate both its quality and quantity--was quite abstract. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• This tendency to exaggerate classification produces a thousand evils and injustices. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Nathaniel Pipkin had ocular demonstration of the fact, that the rumours of old Lobbs's treasures were not exaggerated. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• My readers, besides accusing me of vanity, would not believe such exaggerated feeling as he evinced, to be in human nature. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• This amiable baronet, really a suitable husband for Celia, exaggerated the necessity of making himself agreeable to the elder sister. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Ursula knew she gave herself away to the other woman, she knew she looked ill-bred, uncouth, exaggerated. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• In this, Plato was only following the common thought of his countrymen, which he embellished and exaggerated with all the power of his genius. Plato. The Republic.
• The public mind had been much disturbed by reports, possibly by exaggerated reports, of a recent banquet at Versailles, hostile to the nation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Parsons' is one whose significance in happiness can hardly be exaggerated. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• We might be seeing it all this spring--even the Easter ceremonies at Seville, he urged, exaggerating his demands in the hope of a larger concession. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Why is it not better worth such tears, and such tenderly exaggerating faith? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The old man evidently thought that his son was exaggerating in his description of one or two trivial feats which I had performed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• He has no sufficient idea of the effect of literature on the formation of the mind, and greatly exaggerates that of mathematics. Plato. The Republic.
• Long brooding over those lost pleasures exaggerates their charm and sweetness. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Plato in a hyperbolical and serio-comic vein exaggerates the follies of democracy which he also sees reflected in social life. Plato. The Republic.
• There is nothing to explain, said Crispin, with a yawn; you know the way Caliphronas exaggerates. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Madame Olenska exaggerates; I simply gave her a legal opinion, as she asked me to. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• As Ginevra speaks, they do not carry with them the sound of unmixed truth: I believe she exaggerates--perhaps invents--but I want to know how far. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.

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