Synonyms for overstatement

Grammar : Noun

Spell : oh-ver-steyt

Phonetic Transcription : ˌoʊ vərˈsteɪt

Définition of overstatement

Origin : 1803, from over- + statement.

noun exaggeration

Example sentences :

He wished his answer to be not an overstatement, but the exact truth.
Extract from : « The Portygee » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

It has happened so many times that we know this is not an overstatement.
Extract from : « Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 » by Charles Herbert Sylvester

One of the characteristics of a legend is its overstatement of fact.
Extract from : « Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year » by E.C. Hartwell

Yet this might perhaps be regarded as something of an overstatement.
Extract from : « The Analysis of Mind » by Bertrand Russell

To assert the contrary is to weaken one's case by overstatement.
Extract from : « Vivisection » by Albert Leffingwell

Johnson, on hearing this from Boswell, remarked that it must be an overstatement.
Extract from : « Alexander Pope » by Leslie Stephen

That this is no overstatement of the issue, a bare recital of a few biological axioms will show.
Extract from : « The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy » by Theodore Lothrop Stoddard

As in the matter of monopoly, however, so here, Single Tax advocates are chargeable with a certain amount of overstatement.
Extract from : « Distributive Justice » by John A. (John Augustine) Ryan

The exact proportion of ten copper to one of tin, Mr. Wilson has shewn to be an overstatement.
Extract from : « The Ethnology of the British Islands » by Robert Gordon Latham

He is given rather to understatement than overstatement of facts—a cool, level-headed observer.
Extract from : « The U-boat hunters » by James B. Connolly

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