inflated
adjectiveExaggerated or increased beyond a reasonable or true level.
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adjectiveUsing grand, inflated language that outweighs its substance.
Inflated in language
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distend
verbTo swell or cause to expand through pressure from within.
exorbitant
adjectiveUnreasonably high or excessive, especially in cost or demand.
grandiose
adjectiveImpressively large in appearance or excessively ambitious and pretentious.
hyperbolic
adjectiveMarked by exaggerated language; in mathematics, relating to a hyperbola or certain related structures.
Exaggerated in expression
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overblown
adjectiveExaggerated, inflated, or more grandiose than the subject warrants.
Excessively inflated
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pompous
adjectiveExaggeratedly self-important or ceremonious.
Inflated self-importance
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pretension
nounAn attempt or claim to seem more important, skilled, or impressive than warranted.
Unwarranted display of importance
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self-important
adjectiveHaving or displaying an exaggerated sense of one's own significance.
Inflated sense of importance
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tumid
adjectiveSwollen; in writing, excessively inflated or pompous.
Swollen
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