Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To praise excessively.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To praise too much; praise unduly or beyond measure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To praise excessively or unduly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
praise to an excessive degree.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb praise excessively
Etymologies
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Examples
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I suspect the kind of overpraise in H2L’s first paragraph is the reason that so many Cav Daily people are such smug douchebags.
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Then one can hardly overpraise the repudiation, annexed from Franklin even if he may not actually have said it, of "the false choice between our safety and our ideals."
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Then one can hardly overpraise the repudiation, annexed from Franklin even if he may not actually have said it, of "the false choice between our safety and our ideals."
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I wrote a piece on a pampered Fifth Avenue turtle, Skipperdee, a few months back, but I don't think you can overpraise them.
Deep in a Dutchess Fen Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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Then one can hardly overpraise the repudiation, annexed from Franklin even if he may not actually have said it, of "the false choice between our safety and our ideals."
Hitchens, Obama; and a President who can make fun of the media, not the other way around 2009
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But for now, he's the "it" actor of the moment to overpraise.
Christoph Waltz Replacing Sean Penn in Water for Elephants « FirstShowing.net 2010
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Reviewers often overpraise novels that allude to great works of fiction, because the allusions can give a gloss of sophistication pop fiction or worse.
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Reviewers often overpraise novels that allude to great works of fiction, because the allusions can give a gloss of sophistication pop fiction or worse.
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We overpraise American Beauty and trash Fight Club, not realizing which one will truly stand the test of time.
Scott Mendelson: 2010 Is the Worst Year for Movies Ever, Just Like Every Year Before It 2010
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Boomer parents "are more likely than their parents were to praise children — and maybe overpraise them," Twenge says.
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