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
Mayan mothers don’t overpraise, and their kids retain internal motivation much better?
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2021
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
This manages to both overpraise and insult his team all at once, very impressive.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 9, 2015
It would not be possible for any man to overpraise the glories and beauties of Florence in those days.
From The God of Love by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy
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
As the most overpraised player at the most overanalyzed position in sports, Mahomes is supposed to reach a point of public annoyance and second-guessing.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 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
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
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