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

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

Here is another case where the hysteric overpraise of the critics has done a capable workman a serious injustice, and but for it a candid reviewer could have no temptation towards blame.

From My Contemporaries In Fiction by Murray, David Christie