overcompensate

Rudy may have been the scene-stealer in the earliest seasons of the show, but Theo had the most heart, striving to live up to his parents’ high expectations while behaviorally overcompensating for his low grades.

“And who, over the course of the script, is overcompensating with love. That was just so me for a really large chunk of my life, frankly.”

The movie seems to recoil from its own hammering dramatics, with Bryce Dessner’s score toggling uneasily between jocular blues and dour, overcompensating strings.

“You don’t think he’s overcompensating do you?” a former GOP member of Congress asked me.

There's also a growing concern that India may be overcompensating in its efforts to flatter the US.