inflated

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I think they're just desperate to have apps in their store and inflated app numbers they can brag about.

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Quick take

enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness; "a hyperbolic style"

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness; "a hyperbolic style"

adjective

pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals); "high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school"; "a high-sounding dissertation on the means to attain social revolution"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for inflated.

adjective

enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness; "a hyperbolic style"

adjective

pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals); "high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school"; "a high-sounding dissertation on the means to attain social revolution"

Example sentences

I think they're just desperate to have apps in their store and inflated app numbers they can brag about.

Or are you all too self-inflated to realize that you are part of a public collective?

They hate the idea that you could have a successful currency that cannot be inflated beyond a fixed supply.

Maybe there's a scheme here to prevent good DRM by flooding the market with highly inflated impressive-sounding claims attached to laughable security.

The other tenderers were accustomed to dividing the work up amongst themselves at inflated prices, they didn't even know who we were and we received a lot of abuse for breaking up their little scheme.

Subsequent visitors to the site who don't realize the counter has been gamed may take it as an indicator of how many people enjoyed the article, when in fact the numbers are inflated by other users against their will.

After doldrums and threats, which I will discuss briefly below, I was let go, without notice, stuck with a six-month lease in location with a hyper-inflated real estate economy.> As an engineer, your job is to build things that solve > problems.

There needs to be something like, "I tried, but found it to be overwhelmed with low-quality, low-bid experts-at-everything offshore body shops and astroturf/sockpuppet-portfolio-inflated accounts, which disgusted me and so gave up on it.