Not only did the epidemic fail to materialize, but many people also developed an exaggerated fear of the vaccine itself.

Congress seems to have been spooked by an exaggerated fear that science is going too far too fast.

Those movie-as-schoolroom expectations are based on an exaggerated fear that children will learn history from a single film.

I did not know whether this was due to precaution or merely his exaggerated fear of catching a chill.

These qualities are virtues; but taken to extremes they can seem like an escape from exaggerated fears.

We will not give in to exaggerated fears or passing rumors.

Fortunately, that turned out to be an exaggerated fear.

Exercise good judgement, but don't let exaggerated fears keep you from listening to your heart.

They are based entirely on exaggerated fears or cold political calculations with the next elections to national parliaments in mind.

Any crime is one too many, of course, but the bill's appeal is based more on exaggerated fear than sense.