Crossword clues for overblown
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
overblown \o`ver*blown"\, a. 1. Having been given more publicity than warranted; having had ascribed more importance than was justified; as, an overblown medical discovery.
3. Bombastic, pretentious, or excessive; as, overblown rhetoric.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
Of exaggerated importance; too heavily emphasized, hyped, etc. v
(past participle of overblow English)
WordNet
adj. puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek [syn: grandiloquent, pompous, pontifical, portentous]
past the stage of full bloom; "overblown roses"
See overblow
Wikipedia
Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them is a book by the American political scientist John E. Mueller published in 2006. It argues that the threat presented by terrorism, like many other security threats, has been much inflated.
Overblown may mean:
- a word related to exaggerated
- "Overblown", a Mudhoney song on Singles: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
- Overblown (book), the book Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them by American political scientist John E. Mueller
Usage examples of "overblown".
The Straken Lord had an overblown opinion of what it could expect of her if it thought anything would change that, and she had no idea what fueled it.
After it was allover and C-12 was walking away with her, I was no longer under the influence and I could see there was something hard and overblown about her--a kind of unlovely and predatory gleam in her eye.
Mouw also learned that the serious, potentially bloody rivalry supposed by conventional wisdom to exist between Neil Dellacroce and Paul Castellano was very much overblown, if it existed at all.
Looking up, he saw the air above the mountains streaked in peach and apricot, a phenomenal, overblown sunset such as Rudy had previously associated with the tackier variety of cowboy painters or photographs in inspirational magazines.
She was running just a tad toward overblown but there was somthing quite attractive about the severe way she kept it in check.
Since it was the highly estimable Eastern Steamship Line running daily up the coast from Boston to Bangor, the brochure avoided such harsh terms in favor of the overblown moniker third-class lounge.
She loathed their pretension, and the overblown, blushy-frilly look of them: full sleeves to flutter artistically in the wind, great floppy foolish collars .
I'm not that drunken woman, honey, that grand overblown Hollywood cliché of a woman, you don't have to take care of me, I will take care of us both.
I think the notion probably originated with Enasian, since the Mimbrates have always been addicted to epic poetry and its overblown conventions.
Hell, I was so far gone I loved you when you were just an overblown, brainless, arrogant prick of a clotheshorse and I damned well should have known better!
Overblown fangs, sickle-shaped like inverted question marks extended from the front of the bug in an almost comical display of exaggeration.
Madeleine made out kangaroolike creatures of all sizes—bizarre, overblown animals, some so huge it seemed they could barely lift themselves off the ground.
Coloring the sheets and dividing the room had been great fun at the time, but it seemed stupid and kiddish to her now, and the way her overblown shadow danced on the center sheet was actually scary.
He bade a silent and somewhat overblown goodbye to the shimmering field of grass, the tiny, nearly dry creek, and his favorite privet hedge.