exaggeration
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noun
addition, aggrandizement, augmentation, boast, brag, caricature, disproportion, distortion, embellishment, embroidery, enlargement, excess, excessiveness, exorbitance, exorbitancy, expansion, extravagance, extravagant statement, extremes, gasconade, histrionics, hyperbole, immoderacy, immoderateness, immoderation, inaccuracy, inexactitude, inexactness, inflation, inordinacy, inordinateness, intemperance, intemperateness, intensification, magnification, misleading enlargement, outrageousness, overassessment, overemphasis, overenthusiasm, overpraise, overstatement, overvaluation, rodomontade, sensationalism, stretch, superfluity, superfluousness, superlatio, superlative, traiectio, undueness, unreasonable amplification
associated concepts: deceit, fraud, misrepresentation
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index
bombast, caricature, catachresis, color (deceptive appearance), distortion, falsification, histrionics, hyperbole, inflation (increase), misrepresentation, overstatement, parody, rodomontade, travesty
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006