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"Overstate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... powers and masterful will. It was no empty vaunt which his father had uttered on his deathbed that his Napoleon would one day overthrow the old monarchies and conquer Europe.[9] Neither did the great commander himself overstate the peculiarity of his temperament, when he confessed that his instincts had ever prompted him that his will must prevail, and that what pleased him must of necessity belong to him. Most spoilt children harbour ...
— The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2) • John Holland Rose
... imagination; flight of fancy &c (imagination) 515. false coloring &c (falsehood) 544; aggravation &c 835. V. exaggerate, magnify, pile up, aggravate; amplify &c (expand) 194; overestimate &c 482; hyperbolize; overcharge, overstate, overdraw, overlay, overshoot the mark, overpraise; make over much, over the most of; strain, strain over a point; stretch, stretch a point; go great lengths; spin a long yarn; draw with a longbow, shoot with a longbow; deal in the marvelous. out-Herod ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget |
Words linked to "Overstate" : pad, tout, boast, misinform, overemphasize, embroider, gasconade, embellish, aggrandize, mislead, vaunt, overstress, swash, aggrandise, blow, overemphasise, understate, dramatize, amplify, shoot a line, lard, gas, brag, blow up, bluster, dramatise |
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