overstatement
pronunciation
How to pronounce overstatement in British English:
UK ['əʊvəsteɪtmənt]
How to pronounce overstatement in American English:
US ['oʊvəsteɪtmənt]
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- Noun:
- making to seem more important than it really is
Word Origin
- overstatement (n.)
- 1803, from over- + statement.
Antonym
Example
- 1. But although one can , as always , argue about the methodology , these estimates are unlikely to be an overstatement .
- 2. There has been a grotesque overstatement of the evidence that males and females are born with different brains as cordelia fine has documented in her book delusions of gender .
- 3. But , to give the health minister dawn primarolo and her ilk the benefit of the doubt , they would not overstate the dangers of drugs if they did not regard overstatement as a neutral , benign policy , beneficial to some hoodlums and harmful to none .
- 4. Americans resist overstatement because we want to reassure ourselves we 're a good country at heart . But history has more often proved on this topic that we 're not .
- 5. There has been a grotesque overstatement of the evidence that males and females are born with different brains , as cordelia fine has documented in her book delusions of gender .