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
But it’s possible to care too much for order, cool and elegance, to overpraise the magician’s sleight of hand and miss the trick itself.
From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2019
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 would be difficult to overpraise the artistic, as well as the scientific value of this collection, exhibited in the Bahama Court of the Colonial Exhibition of 1886.
From Cuba Past and Present by Richard Davey
Maybe even 20 years, so as to weed out the overpraised clunkers, elevate the overlooked gems and ensure that the winners truly stand the test of time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 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
“To act like it’s the first great foldable in ages is just overpraising Apple,” said the 35-year-old Fresno, Calif., stay-at-home dad, “because everyone else is doing it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
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
Recent studies have turned conventional wisdom on its head, concluding that overpraising kids makes them less confident and motivated.
From Time ● Oct. 1, 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
