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"Overstate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... evidently an enthusiast, and apt to overstate the points in favor of the method, neglecting those which tell against it. It is too early yet to say what the outcome of Miss K.'s case will be. I think the matter ought to be looked into more fully. Mr. Ritter could not have been with the patient at all times. ...
— The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure • Edward Hooker Dewey
... the valley except what they believe to be the minimum number to detain you. My reason for supposing this is based upon the fact that yielding up the Weldon road seems to be a blow to the enemy he cannot stand. I think I do not overstate the loss of the enemy in the last two weeks at 10,000 killed and wounded. We have lost heavily, mostly in captured when the enemy gained temporary advantages. Watch closely, and if you find this theory correct, push with all vigor. Give the enemy no rest, and if it is possible ...
— The Memoirs of General Philip H. Sheridan, Vol. I., Part 3 • P. H. Sheridan |
Words linked to "Overstate" : embellish, gasconade, magnify, exaggerate, amplify, hyperbolise, misinform, mislead, overstress, boast, dramatise, overemphasise, tout, overdraw, embroider, swash, blow, aggrandise, dramatize, shoot a line, overemphasize, gas, blow up, bluster |
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