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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overprize .
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Examples
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Ares I is a far better choice than pouring billions into using the overprized/underperforming Delta/Atlas launchers which ULA no longer bothers to try to sell to commercial operators (which instead prefer Ariane or Soyuz).
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And 155 EUR really does not seem overprized to me.
Trados just keeps drivin’ ‘em away « Musings from an overworked translator 2009
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Pff, who told You to buy that overprized house anyway?
Think Progress » House Armed Services Chairman ‘Extremely Concerned’ With Iraq Escalation Plans 2006
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I am full of faults, but I am real and true, and the whole devotion of an earnest soul cannot be overprized.
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900
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Or has our boasted progress brought with it a suspicion that female chastity is, after all, an overprized bauble -- that what is no crime against nature should be tolerated by this eminently practical age?
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If the light of her on his eyes dazzled him, if the riot in his mind overprized her excellence, a saner man could scarce have failed to be delighted with the girl's beauty, a wiser to have denied her visible promises of merit.
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I am full of faults, but I am real and true, and the whole devotion of an earnest soul cannot be overprized.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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Godolphin secretly resented the very evenness of temper he had once almost overprized.
Godolphin, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Godolphin secretly resented the very evenness of temper he had once almost overprized.
Godolphin, Volume 5. Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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In fact, the built quality of Macs has declined constantly since the Mac Plus (I have one standing on my shelf, it still boots without problems) and is worse than ever now with the exception of that of the overprized Mac Pro.
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