I think the most appalling example of an over exaggerated response to what someone said unintentionally were Ken Clarke's comments last year.

Pathological intoxication is applicable where, for medical reasons, a person had an exaggerated response to alcohol.

"Then why this exaggerated response when you hear that he keeps a mistress?"

Most of the research has focused on traits that cause exaggerated responses, such as neuroticism, strong racial identification, or hostility.

Instead it treats murder as an exaggerated response to adolescent puppy love.

Responses to eating are variable, some but not all investigators reporting an exaggerated response.

It's an exaggerated response to the flu.

So, although they're not sick to start with, if they get the flu, they have an exaggerated response.

So what we have is an exaggerated response - cutting corners, aggressively pursuing stuff.

Scores were injured, though few seriously, said march organizers, who criticized "the exaggerated response of the security forces."