The villagers are exasperated: the exaggerated importance of something which they see as completely removed from reality is bewildering.
I do not attach any exaggerated importance to my poetical works.
Anything out of the ordinary has an exaggerated importance for us.
At worst, it will create a generation with no interest in any kind of knowledge unless it is to appear on some examination of exaggerated importance.
But I do keep forgetting the exaggerated importance which the average man attaches to love--sexual love.
A drawback to success in life is that failure, when it does come, acquires an exaggerated importance.
The first was because I felt that we in America sometimes place an exaggerated importance on the value and beauty of European arts and crafts.
The rule, however, places an exaggerated importance on test scores.
You're giving an exaggerated importance to a storm in a tea-cup.
Dillard said that for a generation of his peers, black sports heroes took on an exaggerated importance in the black community.