Usually means: Excessive admiration beyond actual merit.
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  1. overpraise: Merriam-Webster
  2. overpraise: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. overpraise: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. overpraise: Collins English Dictionary
  5. overpraise: Vocabulary.com
  6. overpraise: Wordnik
  7. overpraise: Wiktionary
  8. overpraise: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Overpraise, overpraise: Dictionary.com
  10. Overpraise: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. overpraise: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. overpraise: Rhymezone
  13. Overpraise: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. overpraise: FreeDictionary.org
  15. overpraise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. overpraise: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. overpraise: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (overpraise)

▸ verb:  To praise to an excessive degree.
▸ noun:  Excessive praise.

Similar:
overglorify, overrate, superpraise, oversell, overappraise, overflatter, over-rate, overlaud, overhype, puff, more...

Types:
excessive, fawning, gushing, hagiographic, hyperbolic, overblown, overwrought, more...

Adjectives:
generous, public, prejudiced, such, extraordinary, tumultuous, friendly

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Similar:
overglorify, overrate, superpraise, oversell, overappraise, overflatter, over-rate, overlaud, overhype, puff, more...

Types:
excessive, fawning, gushing, hagiographic, hyperbolic, overblown, overwrought, more...

Adjectives:
generous, public, prejudiced, such, extraordinary, tumultuous, friendly



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