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The phrase "a whiff of hyperbole" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a statement or claim that is exaggerated or not entirely accurate, often in a humorous or light-hearted context.
Example: "His description of the event had a whiff of hyperbole, making it sound far more dramatic than it actually was."
Alternatives: "a hint of exaggeration" or "a touch of overstatement".
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Without a whiff of hyperbole, the catalog describes the car as "the drive of a lifetime".
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The buzz which hummed around the opening last year of Sushi Tetsu, a tiny seven-seater off the Clerkenwell Road, had about it the whiff of hyperbole.
But Ms. Volpato's screed against Italy's "famously patriarchal culture" has the whiff of hyperbole.
A whiff of schadenfreude.
A whiff of withholding information does that.
A whiff of hypocrisy?
It also carried a whiff of panic.
I detect a whiff of desert wildflowers.
Sometimes there's a whiff of scandal.
But not a whiff of that here.
Not a whiff of lesbianism.
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