"exaggerated proportions" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that is larger than what is typically seen in a given situation. For example, "She exaggerated the proportions of the painting, making it seem larger than life."
Sometimes all an outfit needs is a chain bag in exaggerated proportions — in a sumptuous floral print.
He established a style of his own – Boterisimo – and answered questions about his characteristically exaggerated proportions and powerful, rotund people and figures.
He's a regular fixture cycling about Santa Monica, and first pumped his body to exaggerated proportions for his part in Sam Mendes's Jarhead in 2005.
The story of the Emirati female pilot who participated in the air strikes against Isis also took on exaggerated proportions – as if she was a mascot rolled out as an additional insult to Isis because she was a woman.
Its debut 36-piece collection was shown to an inner-circle industry group and was, on first sight, a baffling confection: jeans with stepped hems; hoodies with too-long sleeves; trenchcoats with exaggerated proportions; trashed boots with lighters for heels.
The New York Times described it as, "by turns observant and exuberant, and sweet in a way that is both unexpected and organic", while one British reviewer dismissed it, unfairly, as "in effect a music video of tediously exaggerated proportions".
This occurs because the exaggerated proportion of entorhinal nodes carrying object information has an overly large influence on pattern completion.
Continuing to break from his skinny-suit mold, Mr. Browne exaggerated his proportions so that a varsity jacket drooped to the knees and a nubby sweater closed in the back with a toylike zipper along the spine.
In short, and perhaps unsurprisingly, ACA enthusiasts took already-thin evidence and exaggerated it to proportions more to their liking--i.e., inflating actual coverage gains by anywhere from 40 to 75%.
It is a visual shorthand that uses rounded shapes, exaggerated eyes, and squashed proportions to disarm and even stoke a sense of parental protectiveness in the viewer.
One answer is that the media attention has been excessive, exaggerated beyond all reasonable proportions, and it is this which encourages outbursts of anger by appealing to the public's emotions.
