Definition of Overstatement. Meaning of Overstatement. Synonyms of Overstatement

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Definition of Overstatement

Overstatement
Overstatement O"ver*state"ment, n. An exaggerated statement or account.

Meaning of Overstatement from wikipedia

- Hyperbole (/haɪˈpɜːrbəli/ ; adj. hyperbolic /ˌhaɪpərˈbɒlɪk/ ) is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. In rhetoric, it is...
- duplicates the surprise and suspense of his Klute while avoiding the overstatement and pandering paranoia of his more recent political thriller, The Parallax...
- choice of words in describing the incident, and said it had been an overstatement. Five months later, Presley's new girlfriend, Linda Thompson, a songwriter...
- Times praised it as "a small marvel of sustained tone. The slightest overstatement or sentimentality could capsize the delicate sendup of tough-guy clichés...
- 2024, **** was fined $6.5 million for his company's $78 billion revenue overstatement and banned from China's markets for life. **** Ka Yan was born from a...
- the stupid one) provides the resolving juxtaposition. Hyperbole, an overstatement, is a figure of speech in which statements are exaggerated or extravagant...
- In the United States copyright law, a copyright notice is a notice of statutorily prescribed form that informs users of the underlying claim to copyright...
- if he had written anything along those lines, it was "a half-jocular overstatement". He was a subscriber to the People's World, a Communist Party organ...
- choice of words in describing his actions, and she said it had been an overstatement. She went on to say, following the incident, "what really hurt was that...
- reported mortality rate of 26% in the placebo group is probably an overstatement, given that the technology of the day may have detected only severe...