0 the act of describing or explaining something in a way that makes it seem more important or more serious than it really is: --
1 a statement that something is larger, more important, or more serious than it really is: --
An internal inquiry into accounting irregularities revealed a $70m overstatement by a subsidiary company.
Again, this seems to be an overstatement.
It is also an overstatement to suggest that ' traditional trading patterns collapsed ' with the advent of colonialism (p. 3).
However, there is an overstatement of pollution from these sources since we are attributing all the pollution to industry.
Similar overstatements and factual errors occasionally weaken otherwise insightful arguments.
This was, of course, an overstatement and it needs correction.
This is a bit of a rhetorical overstatement.
This trend towards hasty overstatement can sometimes derail an argument.
Moreover, the main characteristic of demarcations by such organisations is their overstatement of their case.
