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Overstatement   Listen
noun
Overstatement  n.  An exaggerated statement or account.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Overstatement" Quotes from Famous Books



... was almost the only form of literature that counted. If, therefore, Russia was to gain distinction in the world of letters, it could be only through the novel. Of the measure of her success there is perhaps no better testimony than the words of Matthew Arnold, a critic certainly not given to overstatement. "The Russian novel," he wrote in 1887, "has now the vogue, and deserves to have it... The Russian novelist is master of a spell to which the secret of human nature—both what is external and internal, gesture and manner no less than thought and feeling—willingly make themselves ...
— Best Russian Short Stories • Various



Words linked to "Overstatement" :   exaggeration, deception, misrepresentation, overstate, deceit



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