exaggerating

comparative more exaggerating · superlative most exaggerating

1. Given to exaggeration or serving to exaggerate; overblown.

   Bridget fanned her face in a very exaggerating way.

   2023, Alison Bellringer, The Bronson Escapades

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   Bombastic Style is an affectation in the composition, either in presenting simple or common ideas under sonorous and pompous expressions, or in speaking of things which have but a vain appearance of grandeur in the most exaggerating manner.

   1846, Gabriel Surenne, A practical Grammar of French Rhetoric, page 264

   Then there are many men in the world, who, from a sincere desire of doing good, are, to say the least, very exaggerating in their phraseology, exalting mere indications of good into realities; and leaving altogether out of sight the reasoning of St. Paul on the subject, in the Epistle to the Romans, the 3rd chapter and 7th verse.

   1864, Paul L. Sandberg, God's Way to Man in Olden Times

   Now, I say it don't show anything, it is not a material point; but it shows how ridiculous men will be in their testimony, when actuated by violent motives, and it is one thing that I have noticed, gentlemen, that as a general thing lawyers are more ridiculous and more exaggerating when they give testimony than any other class of men.

   1882, Journal of the Senate of Minnesota Sitting as a High Court of Impeachment for the Trial of Hon. E. St Julien Cox, page 2466

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of exaggerate