overpraise

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In a world that overpraises TV shows about terrible people, even the smallest sliver of good can go a long way.

From Washington Post • Apr. 23, 2015

"I took much pains with it, but think she overpraises it a little to raise my spirits."

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe

Hence he overpraises Henry VIII. and others who forwarded the movement, and speaks too harshly of some of its opponents.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various

Mrs. Saltram," I explained, "undervalues him where he's strongest, so that, to make up for it perhaps, she overpraises him where he's weak.

From The Coxon Fund by James, Henry