exaggeration

With its use of caricature, distortion and exaggeration, art can look “grotesque” without conveying grotesqueness; indeed, it can convey something quite the opposite.

The downstream effects on the rest of the economy could, without exaggeration, be catastrophic.

The whole thing stank of “you can’t make this up,” because of course it was all completely made up of lies and exaggerations and the grand Trumpian tradition of me me me me me.

The new government has described its housebuilding objective as "hugely ambitious" and that is no exaggeration.

Time magazine: "It's no exaggeration that this is an album haunted by death, so it's almost ironic that, musically speaking, there hasn't been this much life in The Cure for decades."