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Overblown   Listen
adjective
overblown  adj.  
1.
Having been given more publicity than warranted; having had ascribed more importance than was justified; as, an overblown medical discovery.
2.
Bombastic, pretentious, or excessive; as, overblown rhetoric.





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"Overblown" Quotes from Famous Books



... violent and selfish, when they have obtained the last reward of all their striving, and possessed themselves of the seat of power. It was otherwise with Cromwell. He became more moderate, his views more expanded, his temper milder and more pensive. The stormy passions of the civil war were overblown, the intricate and ambiguous passages of his political course had been left behind; and now, whatever may have been the errors of the past, and however his own ambition or rashness may have led him to it, he occupied a position which ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 • Various
... pulmonary sport hears of Boomerang, which he does by virchoo of the overblown boastin's of the Turner person, he announces that his hoss, Toobercloses, can beat him for money, marbles or chalk. Then comes a season of bluff an' counter-bluff, the pulmonary party insistin' that ...
— Faro Nell and Her Friends - Wolfville Stories • Alfred Henry Lewis
... overblown, conceited face. Grey hair arranged with art and science, curl on curl. Three-cornered eyelids, hutches for small, malevolently watching eyes. A sharp, insolent nose. Fish's mouth peering out above the backward ...
— Mary Olivier: A Life • May Sinclair
... to be killed with a thunder-stroke. 100 But art thou not drowned, Stephano? I hope, now, thou art not drowned. Is the storm overblown? I hid me under the dead moon-calf's gaberdine for fear of the storm. And art thou living, Stephano? O ...
— The Tempest - The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] • William Shakespeare


Words linked to "Overblown" :   portentous, grandiloquent, pretentious, pontifical, pompous, mature


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