Exaggerates
[iɡ'zædʒəreits]
Examples
- 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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