a tall talk

  • 61heightening — Synonyms and related words: accelerando, acceleration, aggrandizement, aggravation, amplification, annoyance, augmentation, ballyhoo, beefing up, big talk, blowing up, blowup, burlesque, caricature, concentration, condensation, consolidation,… …

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  • 62huckstering — Synonyms and related words: aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, big talk, blowing up, burlesque, caricature, consumer preference study, consumer research, consumer survey, dilatation, dilation, direct mail selling, enhancement, enlargement,… …

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  • 63hyperbole — Synonyms and related words: abandon, abstractionism, aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, big talk, blowing up, boundlessness, burlesque, caricature, coloring, deformation, dilatation, dilation, distortion, egregiousness, embellishment,… …

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  • 64inflation — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addition, advance, affectation, aggrandizement, amplification, appreciation, ascent, augmentation, ballooning, ballyhoo, bedizenment, big… …

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  • 65magnification — Synonyms and related words: accelerando, acceleration, accolade, addition, adjunct, adulation, aggrandizement, aggravation, ampliation, amplification, annoyance, apotheosis, augmentation, ballyhoo, beatification, beefing up, bepraisement, big… …

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  • 66ostentation — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, acting, affectation, appearance, arabesque, arrantness, attitudinizing, baroque, baroqueness, bedizenment, big talk, blatancy, bluff, bluffing, boldness, cheating, chinoiserie, color, coloring,… …

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  • 67overemphasis — Synonyms and related words: aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, big talk, blowing up, burlesque, caricature, dilatation, dilation, enhancement, enlargement, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, exorbitance, expansion, extravagance, extreme,… …

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  • 68overkill — Synonyms and related words: aggrandizement, aggravated assault, aggression, amphibious attack, amplification, armed assault, assailing, assailment, assault, attack, ballyhoo, banzai attack, big talk, blitz, blitzkrieg, blowing up, breakthrough,… …

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  • 69pomposity — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, affectation, arrogance, assurance, assuredness, bedizenment, belief, big talk, buckram, ceremonial, ceremoniousness, ceremony, certitude, cocksureness, confidence, confidentness, conviction, convolution,… …

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  • 70pretension — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, acting, affectation, affectedness, airs, airs and graces, alibi, ambitions, ambitiousness, apology, appearance, appurtenance, artificiality, aspiration, attitudinizing, authority, bedizenment, big talk,… …

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