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Hyperbole meaning
Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement. | An instance or example of such overstatement. | A hyperbola.
Synonyms of Hyperbole
Example sentences (20)
Caruso used hyperbole to criticize liberals for hyperbole.
A close look at Ford’s record shows Guilbeault’s remark is one of those cases where hyperbole comes pretty close to the truth.
After that, it is off to the races, and that is not hyperbole.
But another problem might be that, as in the case above, Paul’s humor often consists of hyperbole regarding the power of social censure—the joke (as it were) rests on the assumption that her audience shares an intense self-consciousness.
Coco’s burrito al pastor is billed on the menu as a “both hands” affair, without hyperbole.
Even the critic reviews are obvious hyperbole – though they may genuinely be conveying to moviegoers that this movie is everything that the title promises.
First of all, while much media hyperbole surrounds Government shutdowns, much like the debt ceiling, there is a long history of shutdowns going back to the 70s.
His 27-minute masterpiece, To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With (1968), is full of hyperbole (“…walls so thin you could hear a fly in the other room crawling on it.
However public searches of quickly show the levels of abuse and hyperbole displayed in hunting debates on Twitter—including those stoked by celebrities.
Hyperbole is his métier.
In fact, the Supreme Court recognizes hyperbole as legitimate political speech.
It gets crazy,” Rundquist says with purposeful hyperbole.
Mrs Custerson also let windy hyperbole get the better of her when she said the air show was part of a “year-round world-class programme of events in the bay”.
That is obviously a bit of hyperbole from Jackson, who was chuckling a little when he said it.
We can all be guilty of a bit of hyperbole.
We’re not looking for exaggeration, fictional or composite characters, or hyperbole for dramatic effect.
And now that I feel that that weight is off, I can do anything and that is not hyperbole.
And yet with thirteen games to go it does not feel like hyperbole to say that Sunderland’s season and play-off ambitions are beginning to hang like the finest of threads.
But that is precisely the type of hyperbole that fosters the narrative this poll erodes.
First of all, suggesting that the players “when they’re naked” is silly hyperbole.