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Another word for melodramatic

Adjective

  1. Suggesting drama or a stage performance, as in emotionality or suspense

    2. See also:

    surprise

    style

    excite

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Another word for melodramatic

Modifier
    2. See also:

    exaggerated

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Sentence Examples

  • You.ve always been a little melodramatic, Katherine.

  • melodramatic interest.

  • Telramund, again, is no ordinary operatic villain; there is genuine tragedy in his moral ruin; and even the melodramatic Ortrud is a much more life-like intrigante than might be inferred from Wagner's hyperbolical stage-directions, which almost always show his manner at its worst.

  • The duchy of Berg, along with the eastern part of Cleves and other annexes, now went to Murat, brother-in-law of Napoleon (March 1806); and that melodramatic soldier at once began to round off his eastern boundary in a way highly offensive to Prussia.

  • Isn't that a bit melodramatic?

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