overcompensation

• The only reason I had to suspect that was my mother's overcompensation, always telling me that the arms were a gift of some kind. —  AnalogSFF,May2008
• Maybe this is classic overcompensation: he is hiding from his fears of one animal by surrounding himself by other, less deadly animalia? or maybe he is doing an experiment to show mankind what a divine exotic natural uptopia would exist on this earth if we eradicated the predator squirrel. —  WIZZNUTZZ
• We certainly have not seen the last of the days of executive privilege and overcompensation, but the symbolic action of forcing Wagoner to step down is a move in the right direction. —  The Harvard Crimson :: News
• Then again, stereotypes concerning "overcompensation" were invented out of envy and are projected by those who are afraid to admit that they too would love to own such a machine. —  News Tom's Hardware US
• (The word "overcompensation" immediately comes to mind ...) —  The Sidney Crosby Show

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