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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