gross exaggeration
Frequency: 6.89.2 per million words
Used to describe a very large and obvious overstatement.
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- To say he ate a thousand cookies would be a gross exaggeration.
- Her claim that she worked 24 hours straight is a gross exaggeration.
- It's a gross exaggeration to say the movie was the worst ever made.
- His description of the fish he caught was a gross exaggeration.
- Calling the minor delay a disaster is a gross exaggeration.
- The report's statistics seem like a gross exaggeration of the problem.
- She accused him of gross exaggeration when he described the event.
- That's a gross exaggeration - it only took five minutes, not an hour.
- The newspaper's headline was criticized as a gross exaggeration.
- Don't be guilty of gross exaggeration when telling the story.