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Self important

Having or manifesting an exaggerated idea of ones own importance or merit

Cum grano salis

Cum grano salis (with a grain of salt), with allowance for exaggeration

Abracadabra

'Law is not abracadabara, but at once pragmatic and astute and does not surrender its power before scary exaggeration of security by prison bosses' [Sunil Batra v. Delhi Administration, AIR 1978 SC 1675 (1720), para 192]. (Justice

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Capital

money or assets of a stated value at the company's own valuation which may be, and often is, exaggerated or illusory. Working capital means the amount employable for the purposes of a company or any other undertaking

Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus

one comes across a witness whose evidence does not contain a grain of untruth or at any rate exaggerations, embroideries or embellishments, Vgar Ahir v. State of Bihar, AIR 1965 SC 277 (279). The maxium 'falsus in

Ineligibility

punishable for an employee to participate in elections to a local authority, it is a distortion, even an exaggeration out of proportion, of that provision to extract out of it a prohibition of a citizen's franchise to

Overdo

To do too much to exceed what is proper or true in doing to exaggerate to carry too far

Overlash

To drive on rashly to go to excess hence to exaggerate to boast

furor

an interest followed with exaggerated zeal a fad

Overaction

Performance to excess exaggerated or excessive action

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