to overpraise

Examples

• All

• Overall, persistently "overpraise and undercriticize" (Rogers, 2004).

  Academic text (2008)

• Cowboys and Aliens may be worth a damn, but overpraise for it seems a stretch.

  Blog text (7)

• We're anxious not to overpraise it because to go in with overhyped expectations for this small, contained picture would be to deny yourself the gentle, wise surprise of a film that, without doubt, has proven to be one of the most satisfying of our Rome festival.

  Blog text (3)

• Sidney McMurdo's was about as heavy a body as there was in the neighborhood, and when Harold Pickering, with a resource and ingenuity which it would be difficult to overpraise, suddenly butted him in the stomach with his head and sent him reeling against it, it gave way without a moment's hesitation.

  Fiction book (1998)

• The coach warned the fans not to overpraise the team's performance after just one win.

• Some critics believe that it is easy to overpraise a popular artist without recognizing their flaws.

Synonyms

F

to flatter

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100 3.6

Praise someone with words you do not mean to get their help

is excessive admiration without the specific aim of gaining advantage

G

to gush

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26 5.6

To praise a person or thing too much, often with strong feeling

is excessive admiration not limited to speech or expressive acts

P

to puff

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• Literature

7 7.4

To praise something too much to make people want to buy it

is excessive admiration used broadly, not mainly to promote or sell

O

to oversell

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7 4.9

Make something seem better than it really is

is excessive admiration more about personal acclaim than commercial promotion

O

to overhype

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4 5.8

Praise something more than it really deserves

is excessive admiration more about general liking than marketing hype

G

to gush over

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4 7.0

Praise a person or thing in a very excited way

is excessive admiration used broadly not only as an emotional display

G

to gush about

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4 6.1

Talk in a very excited way to praise someone or something

is excessive admiration that applies more broadly than just talking

P

to puff up

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1 6.4

To praise someone too much to make them seem better

is excessive admiration that is not primarily aimed at boosting reputation

P

praise to the skies

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• Informal

1 5.8

Say very good things about someone or something with strong feeling

is excessive admiration used more generally rather than only the most extreme

H

to heap on praise

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4.0

To give a lot of praise, often more than needed

is excessive admiration that can appear in forms other than sheer quantity

B

to beslaver

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• Archaic

9.9

To praise someone in a way that is not sincere to get a favor

is excessive admiration that may be sincere rather than insincere

Antonyms

C

to criticize

701 3.3

To say what is wrong with someone or something

U

to underappreciate

1 5.2

To not value someone or something as much as they deserve

How Positive

to overpraise

1 6.4

to laud

• Formal

30 7.7

to commend

67 4.4

to praise

331 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology