understatement
No, she wasn't that fat - what an exaggeration!
Don't believe everything she tells you, as she's rather prone to exaggeration.
Honestly, without any exaggeration, the fish was three metres long!
"Her face went as green as your jumper." "Don't you think that's a slight exaggeration?"
Unfortunately, the newspaper article was full of exaggerations and misrepresentations.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Exaggerating & playing down
bloviate
blow something out of proportionidiom
cartoonish
cartoonishly
catastrophize
fulsome
go overboardidiom
grandiloquent
inflated
make a mountain out of a molehillidiom
make little of somethingidiom
make much of somethingidiom
make something of something/someone
meal
mildly
minimization
OTT
protest too muchidiom
underplay
underrate

Examples of exaggeration

exaggeration
Perhaps that is an exaggeration, but the space devoted to the twentieth century is much greater in this section.
I think that is simply untrue, it is an exaggeration.
Leaving alone the question as to why this might happen, it seems useful to also produce some precise quantitative estimations of such suspected exaggerations.
Instead, it has pitted ' ' pro-accounters ' ' against ' ' anti-accounters ' ' in an unproductive debate filled with accusations and exaggerations.
It is no exaggeration to say that both human beings and crickets are engaged as one in the fight.
This may be an exaggeration, but maybe there is some truth in it.
The program works by examining text patterns and numbers that can change when a lie or exaggeration is detected.
There are no definitive statistics on the casualties of the war, but the figure of three to five million deaths is certainly not an exaggeration.
The horizontal scale is for (b) and (c), vertical exaggeration c. x 8.
The large adverse gradients next to the leading edge were an exaggeration resulting from the local breakdown (non-uniformity) of the linearization discussed earlier.
This was possibly an exaggeration, but it seems safe to assume that they encountered practically no open water on the way.
This was, of course, a gross exaggeration, not to say falsification.
To be sure, there is a certain degree of exaggeration in his statement.
Such compromise of the integrity of the double-blind in a clinical trial could lead to spurious results or an exaggeration of the treatment effect.
The exaggeration also occurs for vagueness in the sense of underspecificity.
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