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[ThinkingOutLoud]

goes to the extreme to justify their action or try to win a point? Kind of like exaggerating but there's a term for when people do this over and over again. Can't think of it and it's bugging me. Any ideas?

For example - they say they were up all night doing something when they were only up till 1am.

[alliswell]

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@ThinkingOutLoud wrote:

goes to the extreme to justify their action or try to win a point? Kind of like exaggerating but there's a term for when people do this over and over again. Can't think of it and it's bugging me. Any ideas?

For example - they say they were up all night doing something when they were only up till 1am.

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@ThinkingOutLoud 

                                           Fibber?

[SharkE]

Right fighters is what Dr. Phil calls it.

"Do you want to live in peace or be right and have the last word all the time".

[ThinkingOutLoud]

No - it's more like they can't admit they made a mistake. There's an actual name for it.

[QVCkitty1]

In my experience that person would be called a man. I'm only sorta kidding, 

[lgfan]

The following is a list I found on a grammar website:

1) Shameless

2) Arrogant

3) Incorrigable

4) Remorseless

[kaydee50]

The word that comes to mind us "egotist."

[Jersey Born]

@ThinkingOutLoud  - Some guesses are: overelaborate, overembellish, overhype, overgeneralize, overidealize, overinflate, overexaggerate, overestimate, overstate?

Hope you can find the word you are seeking. 

[ThinkingOutLoud]

Thanks for the responses so far. I keep trying to think how to explain it. It's like a personality defect like narcissistic but that's not it.

[Imaoldhippie]

embroider, exaggerator, dramatist, fabricator, embellisher, hyperbolist.

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