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
The blowback from that tweet was such that Netflix has altered its methods a little, now opting for slightly ironic overpraise over outright sniffiness.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 10, 2019
I stopped listening to the episodes that featured celebrities, which often felt like stops on press junkets, full of overpraise for the guest’s “work.”
From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2018
It is nearly impossible to overpraise the importance of its mission at a time when play-it-safe productions are the norm.
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2015
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 James Russell Lowell
The theatrical hype machine needs a winner, but let’s not hold the way “Kimberly Akimbo” has been overpraised against it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2023
His predecessor, Myles Brand, is overpraised as a heroic reformer, but he at least had some practical executive ability and forged consensus on the reform measures known as Annual Academic Progress Rate.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2022
It has caused wrinkled critical noses here and there, and I am apparently in a minority in preferring it to his bafflingly overpraised previous film The Big Short.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 4, 2019
Emma Donoghue’s breakthrough novel, the overpraised “Room,” was followed by a much better one, the underpraised “Frog Music.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2016
The Yorks had a pleasantly comfortable home life, and Ronnie, overloved and overpraised by his parents and a worshipful younger sister, was the adored center of it.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
Yet there is a risk of overpraising her merits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
I learned my lesson after overpraising one of your stories and having you protest that I always loved everything you did.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2021
For the less confident kids, overpraising is disastrous.
From Slate ● Feb. 14, 2014
It is, at least, something to think about before damning or overpraising any new medium in the confusion over a breaking news story.
From Time ● Nov. 14, 2013
With Aunty Uju, they hovered and groveled, curtseying deeply as they greeted her, overpraising her handbag and shoes.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
