The phrase "exaggerated word" is correct and usable in written English.
It typically refers to a word or phrase that is used to make something seem more extreme or exciting than it really is. For example: "The ad for the new phone used an exaggerated word, 'amazing', to describe its features."
Dr Lomborg reminds militant greens, and the media that hang on their every exaggerated word about environmental calamity, that environmental policy should be judged against the same criteria as other kinds of policy.
The culture wars have begun again -- with a vengeance (not an exaggerated word if you've heard the hysterical and ugly rhetoric last week).
Maybe "shame" is an exaggerated word, but in illness one is also very bashful, and so tends not to have contacts with others " (B2) Particularly for NB, death should not only be "proper", but also "beautiful".
These observations are consistent with other evidence in the literature, suggesting that the exaggerated word length effect that characterizes letter-by-letter reading is not the result of visual field loss (e.g. Leff et al. 2001, 2006; Cohen et al. 2003; Pflugshaupt et al. 2009).
Under this view, which we share, the exaggerated word-length effects observed in PA patients are thought to result from a visual deficit, although the underlying cause of pure alexia remains somewhat debatable (Coslett & Saffran, 1989; Warrington, 1980).
In alphabetic languages, the hallmark symptom of pure alexia is slowed, inefficient processing of letter strings with an exaggerated effect of word length on reading performance (Shallice and Saffran 1986; Roberts et al. 2010).
In other words, exaggerated statistics are used to deter students from having sex at all and exclude accurate preventative resources for the many students who become sexually active in high school and later in life.
One particularly well-known example of this is infant-directed speech (IDS, also known as motherese), which contains exaggerated pitch, elongated words and expanded vowel space with stretched formant frequencies (Ferguson, 1964).
Because of his support for the war, when Mr Kerry holds Messrs Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld to account for having distorted intelligence and exaggerated the threat, his words carry more sting both for Mr Bush and Mr Blair.
The meaning things that people love to pull out, like slavery" -- she said the word with exaggerated solemnity -- "just slaver this thing with sauce.
We all labelled 'feminine' with 'F' but 'effeminate' with 'M', noting that although we had a word for exaggerated 'femininity' performed by someone presenting as male, there was no pejorative for someone presenting as female doing the same with 'masculinity'masculinity
