(n.) The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; a going beyond the bounds of truth reason, or justice; a hyperbolical representation; hyperbole; overstatement.
(n.) A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was concluded that B. pertussis infection-induced hypoglycaemia was secondary to hyperinsulinaemia, possibly caused by an exaggerated insulin secretory response to food intake.
(2) Conclusion 1 says that "deliberate attempts were made to frustrate these interviews" – which appears to be an exaggeration.
(3) The first is that the supposed exaggerated winter birthrate among process schizophrenics actually represents a reduction in spring-fall births caused by prenatal exposure to infectious diseases during the preceding winter--i.e., a high prenatal death rate in process preschizophrenic fetuses.
(4) In short, it says the IPCC exaggerates the warming effect of CO2.
(5) The government argued these reports were exaggerated.
(6) The exaggerated buckles used do not allow these monkeys to serve as a clinical model and great caution is stressed in making clinical extrapolations.
(7) These initial reflex responses were exaggerated in the spastics as compared with the normals.
(8) We interpret this exaggerated positive attitude as an attempt to overcome inner fears, doubts and ambivalences.
(9) Historically, what made SNL’s campaign coverage so necessary was its ability to highlight the subtle absurdities of the election and exaggerate the ridiculous.
(10) Most patients with abnormal OGTT's fell into the latter group, but some had glucose intolerance without either an exaggerated insulin response or insulin resistance.
(11) Exaggerations of this presumed daily incremental rhythm lead to the formation of the more major incremental lines which can also be visualized by scanning electron microscopy.
(12) An exaggerated insulin response to oral glucose was associated with reactive hypoglycemia in the post-gastrectomy syndrome, in normal-weight patients with chemical diabetes and 44% of the patients with the isolated syndrome.
(13) Both the absence of exaggerated splay in patients with reduction of glomerular filtration rate by as much as 85%, and the emergence of exaggerated splay in patients with more marked reduction of GFR, require explanation.
(14) In the case of PCP, however exaggerated the story, a real danger does exist.
(15) R6-PKC3 cells also show an exaggerated response to very low concentrations of serum, when compared to R6-C1 control cells.
(16) It was abnormal in its resistance to habituation and in its exaggerated motor response.
(17) This increase is exaggerated when hematocrit levels are increased and the cells are hypochromic and microcytic.
(18) These changes were of equal magnitude and in some cases tended to be exaggerated during the second and third matches.
(19) A more objective consideration relates to the observed late, progressive deleterious influences of hyperfiltration imposed upon the reduced population of surviving nephrons (3); would this process been exaggerated by improved perfusion?
(20) The prose rhythm and colloquial diction here work against exaggeration, but allow for humour.
Overstatement
Definition:
(n.) An exaggerated statement or account.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is shown that the overstatement can be quite substantial.
(2) This error has as a consequence an overstatement of the precision of the study, resulting in incorrect P values which indicate a greater measure of statistical significance than the data warrant.
(3) The overstatement was roughly triple Toshiba’s initial estimate.
(4) For every person who takes the fantasy seriously – to call it a prophecy is an overstatement – scores more find it harmless fun.
(5) It is not an overstatement to say we have a brewing crisis.” Placing Bannon on the NSC, with his lack of national security experience, was a “radical” step, Rothkopf said, as the former Breitbart media chairman had shown himself to hold “racist, misogynist and Islamophobic” views.
(6) It is not an overstatement to say that PG&E has the contrition of Charlie Manson – that is to say, it has none.” The NBNCo spokesman said any questions relating to PG&E “should be referred to PG&E”.
(7) These Super Sunday-ish collisions are so often presented in a farrago of swirling overstatement – seasons defined, destiny shaped, lives ruined, civilisations decimated – but Wenger will take encouragement from this performance.
(8) Inurse a deep respect for the person who says the incredibly unpopular thing at a public meeting, even while I'm hissing at them (that's an overstatement – I would never hiss).
(9) Photograph: PR The asking price is less than a tenth of the £263m profit overstatement that has thrown Tesco into turmoil.
(10) Related to the overstatement is a general failure to acknowledge that society does not always change for the worse.
(11) He dismissed the idea that fraud may have been involved in the accounting blunder: “Nobody gained financially as a consequence of the overstatement of performance.” Pending that outcome Tesco has withheld the near £1m payment due to be paid to Laurie McIlwee, the former finance director who resigned in April.
(12) Lewis dismissed the idea that fraud was involved in the accounting blunder: “Nobody gained financially as a consequence of the overstatement of performance.” Lewis said the discovery of the accounting irregularities had been a “body blow”, but the completion of the Deloitte report “drew a line” under the issue from the company’s perspective – although it would support the FCA as it gathered evidence.
(13) It desperately needs to avoid pantomime and overstatement.
(14) The world's biggest accounting scandals Read more Tanaka and Sasaki knew about the profit overstatement and created a pressurised corporate culture that prompted business heads to manipulate figures to meet targets, the investigators said in their report.
(15) Bailey said Tesco’s overstatement was a “stratospheric error”, adding that any inquiry could be extended to the wider UK grocery industry.
(16) That was an overstatement of the report's findings in relation to Mr Cohen.
(17) Tesco executives could face a parliamentary committee over its overstatement of profits, the select committee chairman told the BBC on Thursday.
(18) This pointed to the difficulties in the differential diagnosis of measles and other exanthema diseases, and led to the overstatement of the recorded measles foci and cases, particularly among the vaccinated.
(19) Improper accounting at Toshiba included overstatements and booking profits early or pushing back the recording of losses or charges.
(20) Much is known about this disease and it is probably not an overstatement to say that there are more data regarding the molecular and biological events underlying CML than any other human cancer.