How To Use Overrate In A Sentence

  • Not to mention that the whole "photorealism" thing in comics is vastly overrated. That’s Kinda Messed Up | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
  • I think his work is extremely overrated.
  • On the other hand, maybe sanity is overrated, and a decent sabbatical from fiction is just what my brain needs to come up with loads of exciting new ideas.
  • Like her, this beer is some pasty, lanky overrated chick with no boobies.
  • My dear, you grossly overrate the credulity of your audience. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
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  • LeSean McCoy, since McCoy tweeted that Umenyiora was "overrated" and "soft," and Umenyiora dubbed the tailback " Lady Gaga. NYDN Rss
  • I mean, anyone who was ever a child and who’s ever written a letter to Santa proclaiming to have been a Very Good Boy (slash Girl) This Year might know that total forthrightness is far overrated. scatterbrain The Hyannis Port Story | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast
  • He overrates devaluation as a remedy for the problems of southern Europe: loss of purchasing power, stagflation, erosion of confidence in the currency and consequent higher cost of capital are the side-effects which are unlikely to be offset adequately by improved export performance. Letters: Greek liabilities are a fraction of Lehman's
  • Dignity is overrated, especially when surrounded by so much spangle and sequin.
  • I believe this to be the true king of the jungle and not that overrated pretender, the lion.
  • If you make it down to the beach, you can try waterskiing, sailing - and that overrated parascending. The Sun
  • The ability to touch-type is greatly overrated unless you are the secretary - sorry, PA - to some antediluvian boss who still wants to dictate letters.
  • I think media spin is overrated – which is why the good Charlie Cook always makes me sigh – what matters is the efficaciousness of the policies. Matthew Yglesias » You Can’t Create Jobs by “Focusing” on the Economy
  • The allegedly good baseball weather is overrated, especially at night.
  • As he looked at her he recognized that he had not at all overrated Veronica's desirability: he found he almost needed to look away. DARE CALL IT TREASON
  • Thanks for the vote of confidence, your Majesty, but I think you vastly overrate my powers of persuasion. TREASON KEEP
  • December 15th, 2008 at 11: 22 pm ha! just read through these comments. to anyone calling the pixies ‘overrated’ or ’standard pop/punk’ (gack!!!) – just try covering one of the less melodic pixies songs. really, try. you can’t. blah Says: Matthew Yglesias » When the CW Is Right
  • I think I overrated him; he can't handle a senior job.
  • I think I overrated him; he can't handle a senior job.
  • I use the word overrated because my friends kept telling me The Untouchables was a 10. Undefined
  • If we're going by just "overrated" not all the way to "terribly disappointing" I'd like to nominate Lolita, as, even though it's a calumniation of many Nabikov obsessions, it is certainly not his best. Overrated novels
  • Dignity is overrated, especially when surrounded by so much spangle and sequin.
  • Because only two Las Vegas sports books—the Golden Nugget's and the M Casino's, run by Cantor Gaming—offer the betting lines so early, and because so little is known about teams at this early stage, knowledgeable bettors say there are under- and overrated teams to be exploited. An Early Way to Beat the Odds
  • Among the overrated is Mihir Bose's Bollywood, plucked from the crowd by Mark Cousins pegs: "Contains the line, 'he was so nervous that he was a bundle of nerves,' which, when I read it on the train, made me laugh so much that people got impatient. GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 12/13.
  • I think Hume is grossly overrated, and that his argument against Miracles was amply refuted by Alfred Wallace, the codiscoverer of evolution by natural selection, in his essay on the topic. Matthew Yglesias » Time For a Blogger Ethics Panel
  • Judging by the comments that previous Overrated lists have received not to mention the book itself, many people don't like it when something is called "overrated. 7 Overrated Things That Are Actually Pretty Good (But Still Overrated) (PHOTOS)
  • Such early patterns of behavior can be a useful guide, but I've always thought they were overrated, myself. AFTERMATH
  • More men are finding out that the joys of work have been overrated.
  • The negative reaction began to gather when Mr. Reed was named "the most overrated lyricist of all time" by the music website Flavorwire, and almost simultaneously a Village Voice online critic who heard a "Lulu" preview cited its "grinding atonality that veers on amusicality" and "relentless misogyny. A Rocky Start to a Metal Marriage
  • Be careful not to overrate the opposition.
  • It would not be his fault if he were overrated; it would be the fault of the (mostly white) writers who overrate him.
  • Communication is heavily overrated as a means of resolving issues and accomplishing things.
  • She's one of the more engaging actresses around, she just came off some major critical kudos for I Am Love an overrated film, but she was terrific, and well, as I joked back in 2005 upon seeing The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, her turn as the White Witch may not have turned me to stone, but she kept me rock-hard the whole movie... Scott Mendelson: Summit commissions a script for a Red sequel. Who should be added to the cast?
  • Thanks for the vote of confidence, your Majesty, but I think you vastly overrate my powers of persuasion. TREASON KEEP
  • Be careful not to overrate the opposition.
  • It has become overpriced, overrated and overrun with ridiculous people who live absurd lives.
  • The term coach is a bit overrated because it is more of a management role. WalesOnline - Home
  • Much of it is junk, and Google overrates a lot of popular junk Scripting News for 3/6/2006 « Scripting News Annex
  • He is highly overrated as a strategist - indeed Democrats have imputed to him almost magical powers to shape events in the most complicated ways.
  • Conversely, nurses overrated emotional needs of patients as indicators of caring.
  • ‘A vast array of individuals seriously overrate the importance of money in making themselves, and others, happy,’ said the strategist in a recent memo to clients.
  • That's why you need to have the discipline not to overrate your own judgment.
  • Last night I gave you one of the most overrated operas in the repertory; tonight it's one of the most underrated.
  • `It can be overrated ," Helen said and earned a delighted glance. DEATH OF A NYMPH
  • Others took the view that Plath was a hysterical self-dramatist, possibly psychopathic, and vastly overrated as a poet.
  • As for local businesses - the $$ influx is far overrated. Fridays After 5, Not Free? at cvillenews.com
  • Also how the public both underrrates (re integrity) and overrates (re facility) most attorneys. First, Let's kill All the Lawyers
  • That's another way of saying, sometimes contextualism is overrated. A Sliver Shines Above Midtown
  • He makes an outstanding catch a week ago and gets tagged with the label of perhaps owning the two most overrated defensive plays of all time.
  • History overrates role players that surround superstars. Don't Bury the Knicks' Trade Just Yet
  • Thanks for the vote of confidence, your Majesty, but I think you vastly overrate my powers of persuasion. TREASON KEEP
  • The kid's brightness is overrated.
  • This would also get rid of problem number two, which is cleanliness - a very overrated virtue.
  • He savages Street Legal, dismisses Oh Mercy as "airless", and rather overrates, in my opinion, the patchwork quilt of quotations that is Love and Theft. Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010 by Greil Marcus – review
  • I have so many less than lady like things I want to say about you, but I've decided to leave the name calling to all the not so happy people who have said you're a shallow, overrated, attention seeking, sad, pathetic, pointless, money hungry human. Stacie Krajchir: An Open Letter to Kim Kardashian
  • But learning is overrated as something difficult to evolve. This may have to do with our chauvinistic attachment to learning as an exclusive mark of our species.
  • Its constructor did not overrate the benefit he had conferred when he wrote in an inscription which can scarcely be called boastful: Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria
  • In your opinion, who is the most overrated celebrity today?
  • Self-esteem is not overrated - it is critical in a healthy, balanced human being.
  • Some teachers have a tendency to overrate the abilities of obedient, conscientious children.
  • Sagittarians tend to overrate the benefits of activity.
  • Of all the inconsequential rubbish dreamt up by television executives over the past half-century, this overblown and overrated junket must rank as one of the biggest misuses of licence-payers' money.
  • I don't want to dismiss the social code entirely, but any true medical fears from backwash are utterly overrated.
  • That's why the first round, in my mind, has become the most overrated, overhyped aspect of an overrated, overhyped event.
  • I think I overrated him; he can't handle a senior job.
  • He is an overrated and overparted tenor who once had a real future in front of him, but the way he has been treated at La Scala is shocking.
  • Diplomacy and its close relation, effortful crowd-pleasing, are both overrated. Times, Sunday Times
  • Making an argument about things or people being overrated is usually something that morons do. Matthew Yglesias » Hinderacker: Gandhi, Mandela are Overrated
  • "They're an overrated team, totally," Ben nodded to himself.
  • My dear, you grossly overrate the credulity of your audience. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
  • My utter disdain for the zoologist is no secret; I think he is ridiculously overrated as an intellectual.
  • Frankly, I think the Internet is overrated.
  • The obscenely overrated thriller Drive parlayed good reviews to a solid $11.3 million opening. Scott Mendelson: Weekend Box Office: What the Massive Opening of The Lion King 3D Really Means for 3D and the Popularity of the Theatrical Experience
  • However, suppliers say they are not comfortable with the digital exchanges, believing them to be overrated, and nothing more than a more efficient way for OEMs to whipsaw them for even greater price concessions.
  • Bill Simmons aka ESPN's Sportsguy likes to write about a concept he calls overrated underrated athletes. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • It wasn't till twenty years later that it started to become a fixture among the greatest films of all time lists, indeed even now a lot of people call it overrated (they're wrong by the way). Kicking The Dog
  • Judging by the comments that previous OverRated lists have received not to mention the book itself, many people don't like it when something is called "overrated". The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • But I'd really have to disagree that No Country is "overrated" -- the book is damned good, and the movie's damned good ... Mike Miley: The Coen Brothers' Mean Streak
  • What was the point of the interview with the athlete other than to inflate the already expanded ego of one of rugby's most overrated players?
  • The overrated artists and the troops of pack-mentality fans were knee-deep in garbage, dreck, debris, and junk.
  • (I hoped it would soon pass because I have eaten deep-fried turkey and it's overrated; what's more, deep-frying a turkey is dangerous, more dangerous even than cooking beef fondu, which once famously burned someone whose name I forget on the Upper West Side in the l960s and was never served anywhere ever again as far as I can tell.) Nora Ephron: Thanksgiving Dinner
  • There are those who say that he is overrated on some counts - that he made some bad Beethoven recordings, and so on.
  • Not only does this perpetuate a harmful vicious cycle which overrates the quality of Chinese food in Taiwan, it is woefully and demonstrably inaccurate. Archive 2006-11-01
  • The most overrated part of the job is the status-oriented perks.
  • I agree with Martha that our culture overrates independence. In the Fullness of Time
  • The hype that was created around the possibility of an ‘environment global deal’ being formulated from the conference always seemed to be overrated. Summit is not right with this Copenhagen Summit « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings…
  • In my opinion, she's a hugely overrated singer.
  • Weddings are overrated, whilst arriage is underrated. "I’ll be very, very sexy under 18 pounds of chiffon and lace and velvet."
  • In a world that absurdly overrates the advantage of sheer brain power, no one wants to be seen as a member in good standing of the stupid party. Culture War By Proxy
  • Now that shrill declamation is wearing decidedly thin with an electorate that is waking up to this overrated suburban solicitor.
  • I'd say he worries too much about muddied bloodlines and sullied birthrights - purity is the most overrated virtue and one he really need not envy.
  • I think brevity is sadly overrated in the blogging world. The Honest Scrap Meme « Tales from the Reading Room
  • Traditional plus-minus systems tend to overrate average players on good teams and underrate good players on lousy ones.
  • The existence of one billion squatters might suggest that ownership is overrated.
  • He finally settled in London with a vague idea of some day writing a _magnum opus_ about the stupidity of mankind; for he had come to the conclusion by the age of twenty-five that all men were stupid, irreclaimably, irredeemably stupid; that everything was wrong; that all literature was really bad, all art much overrated, and all music tedious in the long run. Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches
  • The burgers are muchly overrated and only adequate at best.
  • This ludicrously overrated copycat director gives a nonperformance to temper the ardor of his most slavish fans.
  • Mildred Pierce, while overrated, is another great example of what you are talking about. Swinging with the proto-feminists
  • Conversation is overrated anyway, though don't tell that to the waiters here.
  • Not even a hint of raspiness which I think can be overrated in jazz and blah at times. Rouflaquette Diary Entry
  • Frankly, I think the Internet is overrated.
  • Obama is plainly naive and overrates his own abilities as a negotiator. Let’s talk, no strings attached
  • It must have been 15 years ago that Chip told me the huddle was the most overrated thing in all of sports," said Mark Linehan, a longtime Boston radio personality who was Kelly's roommate at the University of New Hampshire. SI.com
  • Whilst the Czech republic will knock out an overrated French side to book a July 4th date with Italy it will the Azzuri who finally lay their ghosts to rest with a crowning triumph in the final.
  • That being said, I would like to repeat something that I've said before: namely, that I think that America overrates the importance of a college education.
  • I would say that everything is rated pretty accurately, and the only reason most people use the terms overrated and underrated is because their opinion differs from the norm and they can't think of a better way to argue their point. MVN
  • Transformers was good … maybe it was not as some people expected … but still a good movie … shero on May 29, 2008 meh, to say he (Ratner) ruined the X-men franchise is excessive, in my humbled opinion those movies were ruined from the start and Bryan Singer is overrated. Brett Ratner Directing Beverly Hills Cop IV With Eddie Murphy « FirstShowing.net
  • The allegedly good baseball weather is overrated, especially at night.
  • I think I overrated him; he can't handle a senior job.
  • His skill in versification, sometimes striking enough, was evidently artificial; he overstudied metrical expression and overrated its value so as sometimes to write, what were little better than nonsense-verses, for the rhythm. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 6, August 5, 1850
  • You may now safely consider me to have overrated the movie.

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