Exaggerated
Exaggerated adjective - Extended beyond normal or realistic bounds.
Misled and exaggerated are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Misled" instead a verb "Exaggerated".
Misled
Exaggerated and misled are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Exaggerated" instead a verb "Misled".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- When your party eventually gets sent there, you find out that it actually is, but not to the greatly exaggerated extent that the Cocoon government has misled everybody into believing, where the average Cocoon citizen is deathly afraid of anything that is even remotely connected to Gran Pulse.
Source: Home of Monsters -
The results were predictable: the Army lied to the Navy (and vice versa), the military misled the government, and soldiers wildly exaggerated their accomplishments to their superiors (far beyond ordinary Fog of War).
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