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Anglomania |
a greatly exaggerated attachment to or imitation of English manners, habits, institutions, and the like. |
ballyhoo |
exaggerated, noisy, insistent advertising or publicity. [1/2 definitions] |
braggadocio |
empty or exaggerated boasting. [1/3 definitions] |
bravado |
a false, exaggerated, or boastful display of courage. |
bugbear |
something that causes fear, esp. fear that is exaggerated or without basis. |
clown |
a comic performer, as in a circus, who wears odd clothes and exaggerated makeup and entertains by jokes, tricks, juggling, and the like. [1/4 definitions] |
conceit |
an exaggerated opinion of oneself; vanity. [2/3 definitions] |
conceited |
having an exaggerated opinion of oneself; vain. |
cool |
(informal) entire; not exaggerated. [1/15 definitions] |
crock |
(slang) exaggerated or false speech or writing. [1/2 definitions] |
dotage |
foolish or exaggerated affection. [1/2 definitions] |
drag queen |
(slang) a male, generally a homosexual, who dresses in a theatrical and exaggerated way as a woman. |
dramatics |
(used with a pl. verb) exaggerated behavior; histrionics. [1/3 definitions] |
emote |
to express or simulate emotion, esp. in an exaggerated or theatrical manner. |
fantastic |
wildly imaginative or outlandish; fanciful; exaggerated. [1/5 definitions] |
fantasy |
imagination or something imagined, esp. if fanciful, exaggerated, or bizarre. [1/5 definitions] |
farce |
a comedy that depends for its humor on quick and surprising turns of events and on exaggerated characters and situations, or the type of humor characteristic of such a play. [1/2 definitions] |
far-fetched |
improbable or unlikely; exaggerated; irrelevant. |
fish story |
(informal) an exaggerated or fanciful account, as of the huge fish that escaped. |
gonzo |
(slang) esp. in journalism, bizarre, exaggerated, and intentionally subjective. |
gush |
an exaggerated display of unreserved emotional or sentimental language. [1/7 definitions] |
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