overpraise
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Even last year,, external Chappell, rarely one to overpraise English batting, grouped Crawley with Root and Harry Brook as England's key Ashes batters.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2025
I stopped listening to the episodes that featured celebrities, which often felt like stops on press junkets, full of overpraise for the guest’s “work.”
From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2018
So let us not overpraise ourselves for being enlightened.
From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2017
Elsewhere she writes, in a similar vein, about reviewing, words every critic should tattoo on his or her knuckles: “To overpraise is a subtle form of disrespect — and everybody knows it.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2017
You can’t expect me, any of you, to overpraise my own relations, and, naturally, I shouldn’t abuse them.”
From Betty Vivian A Story of Haddo Court School by L. T. Meade
The theatrical hype machine needs a winner, but let’s not hold the way “Kimberly Akimbo” has been overpraised against it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2023
A portrait of James Russell Lowell, his overpraised poetical antecedent, was hung proudly in his study.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2022
His predecessor, Myles Brand, is overpraised as a heroic reformer, but he at least had some practical executive ability and forged consensus on the reform measures known as Annual Academic Progress Rate.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2022
I couldn’t understand why she was so wildly overpraised for doing things like hugging a sick boy, or why her being on a boat with a man was fascinating.
From Slate ● Nov. 23, 2020
The Yorks had a pleasantly comfortable home life, and Ronnie, overloved and overpraised by his parents and a worshipful younger sister, was the adored center of it.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
Yet there is a risk of overpraising her merits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
I learned my lesson after overpraising one of your stories and having you protest that I always loved everything you did.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2021
It is, at least, something to think about before damning or overpraising any new medium in the confusion over a breaking news story.
From Time ● Nov. 14, 2013
Obama risks overpraising himself, even as he takes pains to credit the workers at the companies.
From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2012
With Aunty Uju, they hovered and groveled, curtseying deeply as they greeted her, overpraising her handbag and shoes.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
