The word 'exaggerating' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe a situation that has been exaggerated or overstated. For example: Mary was exaggerating when she said that she ran five miles every day when she had only actually been running two.
The news reports both in the Republic and the UK were not exaggerating on Wednesday.
He sees the similarities between Scotland and Catalonia but also warns against exaggerating them.
That quip has been doing the rounds since Tesco confessed last week to exaggerating its profits by £250m, and it strikes at the heart of the scandal.
The mining magnate accused the government of exaggerating the nation's debt levels to manufacture a crisis and justify moving to "a total capitalist economy" in which money, not people, was all that mattered.
But for now it is sufficient to say that he was not exaggerating the nature of the difficulty.
In Scotland, the half of the population that supports UK-wide parties is now represented by just three MPs First past the post is a system that tends to produce Commons majorities by exaggerating party support in some places and suppressing it others.
"Every time a bank closes, the media asks, 'What's the impact?' You tell them it's serious, but the remittances don't stop flowing, so they don't see the immediate impact – they think we're exaggerating.
He played it both ways, concealing the truth for those paying him to cover up their indiscretions and exaggerating stories for those clients desperate to appear in the headlines.
A member of Moharekat (Participation Front), the main reformist political party, told Tehran Bureau these fundamentalist attacks were predictable and cautioned against exaggerating their importance.
Giggs believes that police phoned venues before the start of the tour, exaggerating security risks.
