0 the fact of making something seem larger, more important, better, or worse than it really is -- 誇張；誇大；言過其實
No, she wasn't that fat - what an exaggeration!
Don't believe everything she tells you, as she's rather prone to exaggeration.
Honestly, without any exaggeration, the fish was three metres long!
"Her face went as green as your jumper." "Don't you think that's a slight exaggeration?"
Unfortunately, the newspaper article was full of exaggerations and misrepresentations.
Perhaps that is an exaggeration, but the space devoted to the twentieth century is much greater in this section.
I think that is simply untrue, it is an exaggeration.
Leaving alone the question as to why this might happen, it seems useful to also produce some precise quantitative estimations of such suspected exaggerations.
