overvalue

How To Use overvalue In A Sentence

• Critics warn that the new hedges were often overvalued, allowing banks to minimise how much the redress scheme costs them. Times, Sunday Times
• He contemptuously dismissed any suggestion to the effect that the dollar was overvalued, or that its climb to record highs on a trade-weighted basis was becoming a source of economic instability.
• And even if she is right that many readers "don't care" about the matters of technique and style she says critics often "overvalue," does this mean critics should abandon more purely literary standards for the vague and untroubled standards she attributes to her infantilized common readers? Style in Fiction
• We also fall prey to the fundamental attribution error, where we overvalue "dispositional" elements "She's bad at money" and undervalue NYT > Home Page
• Over lunch at Mory's, Yale's tweedy private dining club, he suggests that academics underrate the President because they overvalue specialized knowledge.
• More than a dozen nonbank-subprime lenders went bankrupt in the late 1990s after they had overvalued their loans.
• By contrast, the best way to invest is to pick managers who buy undervalued stocks, hold them until they are overvalued and then sell them. Times, Sunday Times
• Like others, Ani feels that renting has been "stigmatised" in the same way that buying had been "overvalued". Angry and insecure – the renting Britons with no hope of buying a home
• Maybe we do a little shading of the truth in order to make a buck. Maybe we overvalue something or maybe we just don't tell somebody what's wrong with it when we're selling it to them.
• Prices are low, but homes were hugely overvalued. Times, Sunday Times