Can someone please correct my sentence?

Question

"Don't dramatize the thing"

I wanted to say that yesterday when my cousin was calling my brother midget cause he is short.

P.S: I would want you to tell me another way of saying it I mean different sentence but same sense.

Thanks in advance for answering my question, I appreciated it.

Answer 1

It sounds like your cousin is trying to talk down to your brother. "Don't degrade him to feed your pompous ego" would be a good sentence for him. says it all.  

Answer 2

huh? it doesn't make any sense if you are referring to your cuzz a midget..

you meant

Don't criticize the thing?

Don't exaggerate the thing?

Answer 3

Don't exaggerate.