1
: excessively large in girth : portly
2
: inflated
overblown claims
overblown rhetoric
also
: pretentious
Examples of overblown in a Sentence
Adjective (2)
overblown predictions of financial calamity after the company had one bad quarter
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Katherine Faulders, ABC News, 2 Apr. 2025
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Adjective
Some of Musk's defenders in the White House caution reporting that Musk is being pushed out is overblown, sources said.
—Katherine Faulders, ABC News, 2 Apr. 2025
The Trump administration has sought to do damage control on the incident, slamming The Atlantic and arguing that the backlash to it has been overblown.
—Jared Gans, The Hill, 31 Mar. 2025
However, the effect that the still unknown final ruleset has had on Nvidia stock may have been overblown, Bank of America’s Arya said.
—Brian Evans, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2025
The common concern about the number of government workers is overblown.
—Erik Sherman, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2025
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“Overblown.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overblown. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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