exaggeration oor Xhosa

exaggeration

/ɪgˌzæʤəˈreɪʃn/ naamwoord

The act of heaping or piling up.

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Hyperbole is exaggeration, which must be used discreetly or it could be misunderstood.
Ugqithiso lugabadelo lwentetho olufanele lusetyenziswe ngobulumko, kungenjalo luya kuqondwa phosakeleyo.

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What causes people to take an exaggerated pride in their race?
Yintoni ebangela abantu babe nekratshi elibaxiweyo ngohlanga lwabo?

“So it is no exaggeration to call Guyana a pioneer’s paradise,” says Ricardo Hinds, current Branch Committee coordinator.
URicardo Hinds ongusihlalo weKomiti yeSebe uthi: “Asizibaxi izinto xa sisithi iGuyana yiparadesi yoovulindlela.”

By learning to ‘trace all things with accuracy,’ you can avoid exaggerations and inaccuracies when you teach. —Luke 1:3.
Ngokufunda ‘ukuzilanda zonke izinto ngokuchanileyo,’ unokukuphepha ukuzibaxa izinto nenkcazelo engachananga xa ufundisa. —Luka 1:3.

Without boasting or exaggerating, explain why you feel you are qualified for the position.
Ngaphandle kokuqhayisa okanye ukuzibaxa izinto, cacisa isizathu sokuvakalelwa kukuba uyafaneleka kuloo msebenzi.

Brother Barber remarked: “It is no exaggerated claim that grand results have come from their further training.
UMzalwan’ uBarber wathi: “Asikokuzibaxa izinto xa sisithi uqeqesho olungakumbi abaye balufumana luye lwanemiphumo emihle kakhulu.

IT IS no exaggeration to say that a Bible-based education can transform lives.
ASIYIBAXI xa sisithi imfundo esekelwe eBhayibhileni inokutshintsha indlela yokuphila.

She goes through the day filled with “exaggerated worries,” even though there is little or nothing to provoke them.
Ugqiba imini yonke “exhalatyiswa zizinto ezingephi,” nokuba akukho sizathu kwaphela.

Many of us tend to exaggerate the negative when we experience disappointment.
Uninzi lwethu luye lunikele ingqalelo kwizinto ezidimazayo xa lusentlungwini.

3 At times, information and experiences have been distorted or exaggerated.
3 Maxa wambi kuye kwagqwethwa okanye kwabaxwa izinto.

The general had not exaggerated.
Le njengele yayingazibaxi izinto.

Also, it is blind to the other person’s weaknesses and exaggerates his or her strengths.
Kwakhona, awububoni ubuthathaka bakhe kodwa eyona nto uyibalaselisa ngokugqithiseleyo ziimpawu zakhe ezintle.

19 Truly, Paul did not exaggerate when he mentioned faith, hope, and love and said: “The greatest of these is love.”
19 Enyanisweni, uPawulos wayengabaxi xa wakhankanya ukholo, ithemba nothando waza wathi: “Eyona inkulu ke kuzo apho luthando.”

Such candor contrasts sharply with the varnished, exaggerated chronicles of the ancient Egyptian scribes, who refused to record anything that might be uncomplimentary to their rulers or people.
Ukunyaniseka okunjalo kwahluke ngokupheleleyo kubabhali baseYiputa ababedla ngokuwabaxa amabali abo okanye bangabhali nantoni na eza kuthetha kakubi ngabalawuli nabantu babo.

“Hay fever is nothing more than an exaggerated reaction of our body toward a substance it considers harmful,” reports the magazine Mujer de Hoy.
“Ihay fever yindlela osabela ngayo umzimba wethu kwizinto ovakalelwa ukuba ziyingozi,” itsho njalo ingxelo yephephancwadi iMujer de Hoy.

Paul was certainly not exaggerating when he wrote that because of Adam’s sin, human creation “was subjected to futility” —or as The Jerusalem Bible renders it, “was made unable to attain its purpose.”
Ngokuqinisekileyo, uPawulos wayengazibaxi izinto xa wabhala esithi ngenxa yesono sika-Adam, indalo engabantu “yathotyelwa kokuphuthileyo” —okanye ke njengoko iThe Jerusalem Bible iyibeka, “yenziwa ayakwazi ukuphumeza injongo yayo.”

Or one might exaggerate or hide details in a business matter.
Okanye ubani unokuzibaxa izinto okanye afihle iinkcukacha ezithile kumbandela wezoshishino.

It is hardly exaggerating to say that today’s world is out of control, governed by an almost infantile greed.
Asikokuzibaxa izinto ukuthi ihlabathi lanamhlanje alilawuleki, phantse ukuba lilawulwa ngabantwana ababawayo.

Suggestions to accomplish this were: Exaggerate the weight of certain products, and submit ‘dummy’ credit notes to a supplier.
Amacebiso okuphumeza oku ayengala: Ukubandisa ngokubaxiweyo ubunzima bezinye iimveliso, ndize ndithumele amaxwebhu okubuyisela imali ‘angeyonyaniso’ kwindawo esasithenga kuyo.

I thought that she must have been exaggerating a bit.
Ndacinga ukuba mhlawumbi unokuba wayezibaxa izinto.

After him, Irenaeus continued to resist the Gnostics’ false and exaggerated spirituality.
Emva kwakhe, uIrenaeus waqhubeka ebuxhathisa ubumoya bobuxoki nobubaxiweyo bamaGnostiki.

(Matthew 19:23, 24) The very idea of a camel attempting to pass through the eye of a literal sewing needle is exaggerated.
(Mateyu 19:23, 24) Le ngongoma yenkamela ezama ukungena kwintunja yenaliti yokoqobo, isisibaxo.

New monks in Thailand have been “sullying the reputation of the conservative Buddhist faith” by wearing lipstick, overly tightening their robes, “walking with an exaggerated swing of the hips and carrying handbags,” says a news report from Bangkok.
Ingxelo yeendaba evela eBangkok ibonisa ukuba iimonki ezisaqalayo eThailand ziye “zayimela kakubi icawa yamaBhuda” ngokuqaba iilipstick, zinxibe imiwunduzo ezibambayo, “zipitshoze xa zihamba zize ziphathe iibhegi zamabhinqa.”

15 The apostle Peter recommended something that the wives noted above have demonstrated, namely, “adornment,” but not by giving exaggerated attention to the “braiding of the hair” or “the wearing of outer garments.”
15 Umpostile uPetros wakhuthaza into abafazi abakhankanywe ngasentla abaye bayibonisa, “ukuhomba,” kodwa ingekuko ‘kokulukwa kweenwele’ okanye “ukunxitywa kwezambatho zangaphezulu” ngendlela ebaxiweyo.

In any case, we can be sure that Jehovah was the Source of all such information, and he guided the writers so that their accounts were not tainted with inaccuracy, exaggeration, or myth.
Enoba kwenzeka ntoni na, sinokuqiniseka ukuba uYehova wayenguMthombo wayo yonke loo nkcazelo, yaye wabakhokela ababhali ukuze iingxelo zabo zingaxutywa nobuxoki, inkcazelo ebaxiweyo, okanye intsomi.

Successful single parents neither minimize nor exaggerate problems; they seek solutions.
Abazali abangenamaqabane abaye baphumelela abazibethi ngoyaba okanye bazibaxe iingxaki; kunoko bazama ukuzicombulula.