hyperbolics

If the report came from the UK there is danger it could be considered "hyperbolics".

Only 7 years into the century and we're already setting records 2007

With that claim Reppetto joins some distinguished hyperbolics [our word], including Rudy Giuliani and the well-known attorney Ed Hayes.

Len Levitt: Mayor Mike and the Imam 2009

Morris's way of putting things being one of the features of club nights, he, as usual, dominating the talk, calling out "Period" -- his way of notifying some speaker to come to a full stop, whenever he broke away from the facts and began soaring into hyperbolics --

Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876

I dinna mean nae hyperbolics -- that's the w'y the thing luiks to me i 'my ain thouchts.

Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864

Because he’s too confused and I thought I’d segregate the hyperbolics into their compartmentalised contradictions …

Think Progress » Palin says she’s fine with Limbaugh’s use of the ‘r-word.’ 2010

Because he’s too confused and I thought I’d segregate the hyperbolics into their compartmentalised contradictions …

Think Progress » Palin says she’s fine with Limbaugh’s use of the ‘r-word.’ 2010

"Most High Potentate," Joe began, translating my plain Anglo-Saxon "Please, sir," into Eastern hyperbolics, "I again seek your Excellency's presence to make my obeisance and to crave your permission to transfer to cheap paper some of the glories of this

The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876

` magnificent, 'and the rest of the media hyperbolics are as deleterious as swear-words in crowding out adjectives and adverbs that really tell us something.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 2 1980