overcompensation
Example Sentences
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Bullying as overcompensation for obvious insecurity and resentment that the world does not view their mediocrity as excellence?
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2024
He wore Kendall’s clothes and practiced self-doubt and the art of overcompensation.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2023
Start your own coffee company that's draped in gun-related imagery and pretend it doesn't scream "overcompensation."
From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2022
But what passes for humor in “F9” are self-referential one-liners about invincibility and overcompensation, often delivered by Gibson’s Roman, that fall as flat as a pancaked police car.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2021
After what I’ve been through, some overcompensation is to be expected.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
