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overemphasis
noun as in exaggeration
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in sensationalism
noun as in tall talk
Weak matches
- aggrandizement
- amplification
- baloney
- boasting
- caricature
- crock
- elaboration
- embroidery
- enlargement
- exaltation
- excess
- extravagance
- fabrication
- falsehood
- fancy
- fantasy
- figure of speech
- fish story
- flight of fancy
- hogwash
- hyperbole
- hyperbolism
- inflation
- jazz
- line
- magnification
- misjudgment
- misrepresentation
- overestimation
- overstatement
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- rant
- romance
- stretch
- tall story
- untruth
- whopper
- yarn
Example Sentences
While California Latinos have essentially been clamoring for the equivalent of a Marshall Plan to build the economy for the state’s largest ethnic group, the political overemphasis on those here illegally continues unabated.
Listing these catch-up details reveals the introductory episodes’ overemphasis on the situation instead of leaning into the comedy of it all.
Perhaps because of our overemphasis on differences – especially political – we’ve lost a sense of interdependency between different communities.
“I think that actually goes part and parcel with some of the overemphasis on these big highway widening projects.”
"Dirty fuel, the overemphasis on external markers of achievement," she says, "over time is going to clog up your kid's engine."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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