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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
over-rate . - adjective Alternative spelling of
overrated .
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Examples
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We watched her as McCain pulled her out of the wilderness, un-vetted, un-experienced and over-rated.
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Let's not forget the billions of blithely over-rated CDOs and other instruments in the long and frothy run-up to the sub-prime crisis.
Adam Hanft: Moody's Should Shut Its Mouth About U.S. Debt Adam Hanft 2011
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Recents works like Final Crisis and Batman: RIP divide fans and incite a lot of hate of Morrison as being over-rated and pretentious.
Did Mark Millar Turn Down The X-Men 4 Writing Gig? | /Film 2010
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Let me say it: Mark Millar is the most over-rated and less talented writer in the world.
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Avatar was very over-rated and he is far too open with his own idiocy.
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He's gotta be one of the most over-rated filmmakers EVER IMO. geoff
Kevin Smith’s Red State Gets a Green Light, Will Shoot Before Hit Somebody | /Film 2010
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Three of the most over-rated, ridiculous movies ever to be assembled under one roof.
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The Untouchables and Dances with Wolves were two of the most over-rated films leading me up to:
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Hope to see you Thursday, and for the record, that author is over-rated.
Book Club News 2010
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Infinitely better than that over-rated pile of garbage THE HANGOVER. vik713
Jason Segel and John Michael Higgins Cast in Bad Teacher | /Film 2010
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