The first sentence in that passage is, of course, a gross exaggeration.
Other accounts consider the story to be a gross exaggeration.
Other studies have shown this to be a gross exaggeration.
In general, numbers written down by ancient military authors have to be taken as gross exaggerations.
"You know what they say about rumors and gross exaggerations."
Hold up a mirror so that he can see his image in gross exaggeration.
That is a gross exaggeration, legal and medical experts say.
That is a gross exaggeration of what the difficulties were.
But to call it the best of the last 80 years is a gross exaggeration.
This is quite a gross exaggeration, to be sure.