Crossword-Solution: OVERSTATEMENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Overstatement | n. | An exaggerated statement or account. |
We have 30 clues for the answer “OVERSTATEMENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Hyperbolist's report | 1 answer |
| hyperbole | 13 answers |
| glamorisation | 31 answers |
| garnishment | 31 answers |
| enrichment | 32 answers |
| beautification | 34 answers |
| aggrandisement | 37 answers |
| colouring | 43 answers |
| Embellishment | 48 answers |
| Embroidery | 50 answers |
| elaboration | 50 answers |
| trimming | 51 answers |
| evolution | 51 answers |
| frill | 55 answers |
| Illustration | 56 answers |
| ruff | 58 answers |
| Adornment | 59 answers |
| Ruffle | 63 answers |
| Garnish | 64 answers |
| exaggeration | 68 answers |
| Ornamentation | 70 answers |
| development | 74 answers |
| ACCESSORY ___ | 74 answers |
| expansion | 75 answers |
| Painting | 77 answers |
| colour | 78 answers |
| Gain | 81 answers |
| Trim | 91 answers |
| Ornament | 96 answers |
| Color | 140 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OVERSTATEMENT (5)
You might even say, with only slight overstatement, that what Anderson is doing in Winesburg, Ohio could be described as “antirealistic,” fictions notable less for precise locale and social detail than for a highly personal, even strange vision of American life.
The facts thus shown did not at first elicit much gratitude from supporters of traditional theology, and perhaps few things brought more obloquy on Renan, for a time, than his statement that "the influence of Persia is the most powerful to which Israel was submitted." Whether this was an overstatement or not, it was soon seen to contain much truth.
These various locutions are, no doubt, of the nature of hyperbole; but, at the same time, like all overstatement, they are evidence of a lively sense of the gravity of the consequences which they are intended to describe.
The number of spectators, as we read underneath the numerous coloured prints which represent this spectacle, was 600,000; but though, without doubt, the gardens of the Tuileries are very large, it is probable this figure is a considerable overstatement, for this number would have been three-fourths of the whole population of Paris.
Males, like females, in the course of that old fight between the public and private house, had indulged in overstatement and extravagance, feeling that they must keep up their end of the see-saw.
Quotes with OVERSTATEMENT (3)
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
It is not an overstatement to say that the destiny of the entire human race depends on what is going on in America today. This is a staggering reality to the rest of the world; they must feel like passengers in a supersonic jetliner who are forced to watch helplessly while a passel of drunks, hypes, freaks, and madmen fight for the controls and the pilot's seat. — Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, 1968
You know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to Vienna to live and study... Ever see one of his paintings? Neither have I. Resistance beat him. Call it overstatement but I'll say it anyway: it was easier for Hitler to start World War II than it was for him to face a blank square of canvas.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1985).