17 collocations for overstated

I think you will now allow that I did not overstate my case when I asserted that we have as strong grounds for believing that all the vast area of dry land, at present occupied by the chalk, was once at the bottom of the sea, as we have for any matter of history whatever; while there is no justification for any other belief.

" It was impossible to doubt that he said this judiciously and not with a desire to overstate his powers.

But even he, I think, overstates the claim of the public schools.

Undoubtedly it is scarcely possible to overstate the all-grasping despotism of Henry VIII., and if a precedent for anything reckless of all separate rights and independence should be wanted, it would never be sought in vain if looked for in the policy and legislation of that reign.

The average traveller overstated the drunkenness of the backwoodsman, exactly as he overstated his misery.

To say that the boy was consummate in the limited way of a ship's cook does not overstate his effectiveness.

It would be easy to overstate the efflorescence of distinctively feminine emotion, dressiness, mysticism, and vanity upon the suffrage movement.

There was a gleam of battle satisfaction in the editorial eye when Hildreth faced the last sheet down upon the accumulation of evidence, saying: "You didn't overstate the fact in your brag about the political graves.

That view our host and his suite had seen themselves the year before; and they assured me that Humboldt had not overstated its grandeur.

McKee always understates the British force and loss, and greatly overstates the loss and force of the Americans.

The average traveller overstated the drunkenness of the backwoodsman, exactly as he overstated his misery.

And even now, when I reread my record, I feel that I cannot overstate the pleasure I found in surrendering myself completely to that controlling impulse.

Still, when he found out that dogs were not so dangerous, he began to think his mother might have overstated the man question, too.

Sheila had not overstated the unhappiness that Mrs. Hudson's evident dislike had caused her.

As a matter of fact, Madero himself, far from overstating the benefits of the revolution led by him or making unwise promises of a Utopia impossible of realization, addressed these words to the Mexican people at the close of that conflict: "You have won your political freedom, but do not therefore suppose that your economic and social liberty can be won so suddenly.

We think we cannot overstate the wisdom and benefit of this act of the Government.

Aren't the probabilities that they will always overstate the caseas far as possible? DIST.

17 collocations for  overstated