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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Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 25 June 2025
With inflation hovering modestly above 2 percent despite President Donald Trump's aggressive tariff increases and immigration enforcement, some might wonder whether warnings about his policies driving up prices were overblown.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
Doyle was fiercely critical of early efforts to keep people off the trail after Helene, insisting that reports of damage were overblown.
—Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 20 June 2025
But recent evidence suggests this fear may be overblown under certain conditions.
—ArsTechnica, 18 June 2025
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Adjective
This was proof to Wall Street that concerns about a slowdown in AI spend were overblown.
—Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 25 June 2025
With inflation hovering modestly above 2 percent despite President Donald Trump's aggressive tariff increases and immigration enforcement, some might wonder whether warnings about his policies driving up prices were overblown.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
Doyle was fiercely critical of early efforts to keep people off the trail after Helene, insisting that reports of damage were overblown.
—Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 20 June 2025
But recent evidence suggests this fear may be overblown under certain conditions.
—ArsTechnica, 18 June 2025
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“Overblown.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overblown. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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