What is "overstate"

Usage examples of "overstate".

Indian economist Surjit Bhalla, formerly of the World Bank, believes that even these figures overstate the current extent of global poverty: By his calculations, the poverty rate has already fallen to 13 percent.

My Hessian lieutenant calls it four miles from New York, but he overstates the distance.

It may sound overstated to say that she nearly took my breath away, but I assure you, that was no exaggeration.

Nevertheless, I gained face of a certain kind, as one who could produce a love poem, authentic if perhaps overstated, on demand.

Discretionary accounts, reimbursed expenses, overstated of course- a percentage of our expense allowance salted away, laundered clean, invested in the market.

For example, now that he had taken a closer look, Odo had to admit that Steyn had not been overstating the case about her security systems.

But in this Adams was both overstating his own part and being blatantly unfair to Franklin, who had supported the recognition of American independence since the beginning, before Adams ever arrived on the scene.

All of the arguments in favor of deterrence are flawed in that they overstate the certainty that any leader in possession of nuclear weapons can be deterred at all times.

Although this survey examined only 6 percent of all Iraqi tanks destroyed during the war, and then only those in a small part of the KTO, it nonetheless indicates that while my numbers may not be precise, they are probably not off by much but may slightly overstate the amount of physical destruction caused by the air strikes.

The cruelty of this disease cannot be overstated, but the intense support that PALS, their families, their doctors, and other caregivers provide to one another is inspirational.

Hence the tendency in these productions, and in medical lectures generally, to overstate the efficacy of favorite methods of cure, and hence the premium offered for showy talkers rather than sagacious observers, for the men of adjectives rather than of nouns substantive in the more ambitious of these institutions.

Like the rest of the house it had been glamorously decorated in an overstated contemporary fashion, with raw silk wallcoverings and bowl-shaped furniture.

Natasha suspected that he might have overstated the woman's importance and wasn't at all sure she liked the way Berna had waxed effusive on Brandy Bates' accomplishments.

She may be overstating the case, but book clubs, for example, are finding it increasingly more difficult to choose monthly selections that appeal to large numbers of divergent readers.

The bottom line is that the successes in forecasting have been overstated (sometimes drastically) and misapplied in other areas.