ppl. a. [f. EXAGGERATE v. + -ING2.] That exaggerates.

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1817.  Jas. Mill, Brit. India, II. V. viii. 667. The exaggerating language of Mr. Hastings.

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1833.  Thirlwall, in Philol. Mus., II. 576. In this Mr. Ast discovers the hand of an exaggerating rhetorician.

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1881.  Mrs. Lynn Linton, My Love! I. 77. You always were one of the most exaggerating children possible.

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  Hence Exaggeratingly adv.

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1858.  Chamb. Jrnl., IX. 376. She retailed what Lisa saw … fluently, unfailingly, and, we regret to add, exaggeratingly.

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1876.  W. Graham, Mem. J. Macfarlane, iii. 144. Neither heartlessly inappreciative of the past, nor exaggeratingly friendly to the present.

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