exaggerated
adjective
ex·ag·ger·at·ed
ig-ˈza-jə-ˌrā-təd 
1
: excessively or inappropriately heightened, inflated, or overstated
exaggerated fears
a wildly exaggerated story
As students go from one disconnected course to the next, they tend to form a highly exaggerated idea of the differences between teachers and subjects.—
Gerald Graff
Gerald Graff2
: enlarged or increased beyond the normal : greater than normal
… many people have an unusual or exaggerated response to a drug, but they are not necessarily allergic to the drug.—Paul D. Buisseret
Paul D. Buisseret
exaggeratedly
adverb
… my own view of the art of architecture—a view that many people (including many architects) would perhaps consider an exaggeratedly lofty one.
—Brendan Gill
Brendan Gill
Koenig's movements were brisk, exaggeratedly optimistic.
—Nick Paumgarten
Nick Paumgarten
exaggeratedness
noun
… we often do not respond to exaggeration by simply pointing out its exaggeratedness …
—Julie Kuhlken
Julie Kuhlken
Examples of exaggerated in a Sentence
loves the exaggerated emotions that are part and parcel of grand opera
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Worse, even exaggerated calculations — lower cost of college, total income instead of incremental — with the new College Scorecard data yield surprising results for CEW.
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 17 Apr. 2025
Melodrama gets a bad rap for being too exaggerated, and over-the-top but outrageous circumstances beget heightened emotions.
—Barry Levitt, Time, 9 Apr. 2025
Worse, even exaggerated calculations — lower cost of college, total income instead of incremental — with the new College Scorecard data yield surprising results for CEW.
—Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
Addressing concerns about President Trump's past rhetoric regarding NATO, Rubio stressed that the US is as active in NATO as ever and that such concerns are exaggerated.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Apr. 2025
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“Exaggerated.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exaggerated. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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