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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
overpraise .
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Examples
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If Sorkin overpraises Brazil, he presents a picture of U.S. private equity that's simply bizarre.
Robert Teitelman: Brazil, America and the Realities of Private Equity Robert Teitelman 2011
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If Sorkin overpraises Brazil, he presents a picture of U.S. private equity that's simply bizarre.
Robert Teitelman: Brazil, America and the Realities of Private Equity Robert Teitelman 2011
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Ed here: This review overpraises the movie, I think, but it's an intersting film only because it reminds us of the influence newspapers once held.
Gettin Sentimental; David Janssen; Lost Movies Ed Gorman 2008
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Ed here: This review overpraises the movie, I think, but it's an intersting film only because it reminds us of the influence newspapers once held.
Archive 2008-07-01 Ed Gorman 2008
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Such a view is a sad, shriveled, and narrow perspective of fiction's possibilities, one that overpraises the virtues of propaganda and ignores the virtues of allegory, fable, myth, poetry, and imagination.
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Such a view is a sad, shriveled, and narrow perspective of fiction's possibilities, one that overpraises the virtues of propaganda and ignores the virtues of allegory, fable, myth, poetry, and imagination.
Archive 2005-03-01 2005
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He does well enough but he somewhat overpraises himself.
LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001
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He does well enough but he somewhat overpraises himself.
LEE’S LIEUTENANTS DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN 2001
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He does well enough but he somewhat overpraises himself.
Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971
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He does well enough but he somewhat overpraises himself.
Lee’s Lieutenants Douglas Southall Freeman 1971
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