An inflated balloon.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Verb (used with object) : The king cobra inflates its hood. ,to inflate a balloon.    From Dictionary.com. 

Adjective : his inflated prose. ,inflated costs. ,inflated perianth.    From Dictionary.com. 

Wednesday's meeting followed government criticism on Heath, with Manuel questioning what he described as inflated successes claimed by the unit.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Arnold Kling uses this explain inflated university tuition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Compulsory Cultural Exchange?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

The size of the sofa when fully inflated is 180 cm in width and 90cm in height.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stylish Inflatable Furniture by Blofield] Reference

The costs of emergency care for the uninsured get passed on in inflated billing to people who are insured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Why Is Nelson OK With Using Reconciliation For Tax Cuts For Millionaires But Not For Health Care For Americans?] Reference

We are only staying so that political egos here can remain inflated, at the cost of American and middle eastern lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama rejecting Afghanistan criticism] Reference

Does anyone understand why Obama suggesting that people keep their tires properly inflated is some sort of hilarious gaffe?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eschaton] Reference

Barrie Jarrett, CEO of TEAMtalk Media, reasons that the short-term inflated pricing of flights, hotels and even beer may persuade tourists to go elsewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference

If you should sell your house and make a profit on the deal in inflated dollars, Obama wants to take 28 percent of that profit rather than the 15 percent presently taken.    From Wordnik.com.  [mjh's blog — 2008 — August] Reference

"Demand in China is over-inflated, that is clear.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

What ‘bombast’ now means is familiar to us all, namely inflated words, “full of sound and fury”, but “signifying nothing”.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Past and Present] Reference

Or someone with a kind of inflated sense of self-importance.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2005] Reference

I guess we can quit laughing at the Chinese for their grossly "inflated" growth figures.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big Picture] Reference

BUCKMAN: No. KURTZ: You think the figure 50 million is kind of inflated, that a deal like that would never really happen?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 4, 2002] Reference

But the rising nations around the world are also imitating bad things, such as inflated defense spending and nationalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deepak Chopra: Beyond the G20: A World We Can Believe in] Reference

Now, you can say his September results were kind of inflated because people were looking forward to seeing him out there on the campaign trail.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 16, 2007] Reference

The investigation could focus on whether the bank used false information such as inflated appraisals to give loans and on possible securities fraud.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2008] Reference

Transpacific admits declared past earnings 'inflated'.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

Shelby County's infant-mortality rate 'inflated', new study says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memphis Commercial Appeal Stories] Reference

This resulted in an "inflated" share price that plummeted when the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

Lloyds accused of distorting job market with 'inflated' pay and bonuses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

A data template isn't going to be "inflated" unless you've referenced data.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Code Project Latest Articles] Reference

My next issue with your article is the comments about the "inflated" converter box prices.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Tape Chronicles] Reference

And I definitely don't recommend that investors avoid bonds because of such "inflated" fears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com] Reference

Bond prices are "inflated" in much the same way that real estate and housing were in the last two bubbles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Minyanville] Reference

Okay, so we could probably - O&M will probably be - O&M was kind of inflated in last year's fourth quarter.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference

This resulted in an "inflated" share price that plummeted when the "truth began to emerge", the suit claims.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases]

Letang is usually pretty solid, but he started his career 4-4 so his numbers are still kind of inflated from that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Sports - Top News] Reference

If he uses this to mean dollars that are inflated in value, then you're also paying more interest in "inflated" dollars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comments for Mighty Bargain Hunter] Reference

The head of the UK's biggest bank hit out at the "inflated" bonus culture and predicted smaller payouts for the industry in future.    From Wordnik.com.  [icCheshireOnline] Reference

Yet no matter how "inflated" Black South Africans expectations may have been, the truth is that the vast majority of the poor are black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference

Nebraska's inflatable mascot, Lil 'Red, even looked more "inflated" than usual, what with all the fans present and a league-leading team.    From Wordnik.com.  [ESPNsoccernet] Reference

When the Fed injects more money into the system, then you have an 'inflated' money supply chasing the same number of goods in the market.    From Wordnik.com.  [Techdirt] Reference

Pure scientists want to learn the pure truth about the world, and I don't care a single bit whether someone finds these words "inflated".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reference Frame] Reference