Associations to the word «Overstatement»

Wiktionary

OVERSTATEMENT, noun. An exaggeration; a statement in excess of what is reasonable.
OVERSTATEMENT, noun. The tendency to overstate.

Dictionary definition

OVERSTATEMENT, noun. Making to seem more important than it really is.

Wise words

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
Aeschylus