overpraise
Example Sentences
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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
Maybe the highest compliment came from Bob Gibson, never one to overpraise: “As a rule, I’m reluctant to express admiration for hitters, but I make an exception for Frank Robinson.”
From Washington Times • Dec. 29, 2019
Orwell and Hardwick present the “gross” overpraise as calculated; I think it usually is not.
From Slate • Jan. 9, 2018
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
It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient with overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury while the other may he their ruin.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
