Crossword-Solution: EXAGGERATING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Exaggerating | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Exaggerate |
| Exaggerating | a. | That exaggerates; enlarging beyond bounds. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Indulging in hyperbole | 1 answer |
| Gasconade | 36 answers |
| Perform-ing | 64 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEERT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EXAGGERATING (5)
All through the afternoon he could be overheard relating the wonder to any one who would listen, exaggerating the effect of his blow, inventing terrific details.
Don't ask me to do it, Henry! Feel my hand--you have turned me as cold as death only with talking of it!' She was not exaggerating the terror that possessed her.
Give me a call whenever you need any--I mean, when you're going by, sometime.' In his joyful high spirits, he did the exaggerating himself, if any has been done.
The swells amused themselves during the official visit of the Emperor and Empress of Russia last year (which was gall and wormwood to them) by exaggerating and repeating all the small slips in etiquette that the President, an intelligent, but simple-mannered gentleman, was supposed to have made during the sojourn of his imperial guests.
And here, lest you should think I am exaggerating, is Hazlitt’s own confession, from his essay _On Going a Journey_, which is so good that there should be a tax levied on all who have not read it:— “Give me the clear blue sky over my head,” says he, “and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours’ march to dinner—and then to thinking! It is hard if I cannot start some game on these lone heaths.
Quotes with EXAGGERATING (3)
An admirable line of Pablo Neruda’s, “My creatures are born of a long denial,” seems to me the best definition of writing as a kind of exorcism, casting off invading creatures by projecting them into universal existence, keeping them on the other side of the bridge… It may be exaggerating to say that all completely successful short stories, especially fantastic stories, are products of neurosis, nightmares or hallucination neutralized through objectification and translated to…
The truth is, that one doesn't really know anything about anybody. Not even the people who are nearest to you...''Isn't that going a little too far--exaggerating too much?''I don't think it is. When you think of people, it is in the image you have made of them for yourself.
Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.
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Appears in: S&S.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2003).