Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An exaggerated statement; an overcharged account or recital.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An exaggerated statement or account.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
exaggeration ; astatement in excess of what is reasonable. - noun The tendency to
overstate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun making to seem more important than it really is
Etymologies
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Examples
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That overstatement is being cultivated to get more control of environmental and social issues.
Think Progress » Inhofe’s Grandchildren Build Igloo To Mock Killer Snow Storm: ‘Al Gore’s New Home’ 2010
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Also good is the news that the SEC won’t be enforcing any action for the pesky circulation overstatement from a while back.
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A good example of the overstatement is the PNHP study released yesterday which is rightly being carved up in among other places, Megan McCardle's blog.
Free Lunch!, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Hitt apologized to Haley at the meeting, saying the overstatement was his agency's fault.
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Hitt apologized to Haley at the meeting, saying the overstatement was his agency's fault.
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Beside the fact that Corrigan, Paul Volcker's sidekick at the Federal Reserve and former New York Fed chairman who is co-chairman of Goldman's business standards committee, which wrote the report, is talking up his own book here, notice the haziness of that "overstatement," which can mean almost anything.
Robert Teitelman: Goldman Sachs, Business Standards and the Critics Robert Teitelman 2011
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Beside the fact that Corrigan, Paul Volcker's sidekick at the Federal Reserve and former New York Fed chairman who is co-chairman of Goldman's business standards committee, which wrote the report, is talking up his own book here, notice the haziness of that "overstatement," which can mean almost anything.
Robert Teitelman: Goldman Sachs, Business Standards and the Critics Robert Teitelman 2011
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And in that, Mike has put together a number of essays written since the 1970s and I found it quite an education and quite a sobering thing to read those again and to see how at a particular moment in the heat of a particular argument you're inexorably pulled towards that kind of overstatement and then you have to wait until the pressure comes to the other kind of overstatement.
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You, of course, are free to define "overstatement" any way you wish.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Reports that Ministers at Wednesday's Cabinet meeting - where next week's special meeting had been decided on - had almost indulged in fisticuffs were an "overstatement" and had created the wrong impression.
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