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overpraise
▪ I. overpraise, n. (ˈəʊvəˈpreɪz) [over- 29 b.] Excessive praise; praise beyond what is deserved.1694 Dryden Love Triumphant i. i, This over-praise You give his worth, in any other mouth, Were villainy to me. 1875 Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims i. 58 Our overpraise and idealization of famous masters.▪ II...
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underpraise
ˌunderˈpraise, v. (under-1 10 a.)1698 Dryden Ep. to Motteux 52 In underpraising thy Deserts, I wrong. 1842 Mrs. Browning Bk. of Poets ii. ¶7 We must not underpraise Surrey to balance the overpraise we murmur at.
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Lynn Harrell
Schonberg of The New York Times declared that "it would be hard to overpraise the beautiful playing" of Harrell, adding "this young man has everything"
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mispraise
misˈpraise, v. Now rare. [mis-1 1, 7.] 1. trans. To dispraise, blame.a 1300 Cursor M. 25842 Mai naman mis-prais þe thing þe quilk es broght to god ending. 1340 Ayenb. 136 He prayzeþ more þe oþre þe more he him-zelue misprayseþ. 1481 Caxton Reynard (Arb.) 7 Your Chyldren many yeris herafter shal be m...
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The Duke of York's Steps
In The Observer the reviewer Gerald Gould wrote "It would be difficult to overpraise it".
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Elevator (Louie)
It's far too easy to overpraise Louie but the impulse to do so exists because it sets the bar for itself so high, then clears that bar with so frequently
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Rats, Lice and History
In a front-page review in the New York Herald Tribune Books, physician and medical writer Logan Clendening wrote "It is impossible for me to overpraise
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The Throne of Saturn (short story collection)
superb short stories of a future in which the new gods have led man into strange scientific and sociological bypaths -- a book it would be difficult to overpraise
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idealization
idealization (aɪdiːəlaɪˈzeɪʃən) [f. idealize + -ation; cf. F. idéalisation (Littré).] The action of idealizing or fact of being idealized.1796 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. II. 466 Is this irony?..Or poetical idealization? 1853 De Quincey Autobiog. Sk. Wks. I. 54 The devotion gave grandeur and idealisat...
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Saint Michael's Medical Center
It was described in 1873 as "a bijou of a hospital, perfect in all its accommodations from cellar to attic, and it would be difficult to overpraise its
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over-
over- is used with adverbial, prepositional, and adjectival force, in combination with ns.; with adverbial and prepositional force in comb. with verbs; with adverbial force in combination with adjs., advbs., and prepositions. Its combinations are therefore exceedingly numerous, and, from the wide ra...
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Maura Pfefferman
It’s tough to overpraise Jeffrey Tambor’s work in the pilot—the weary softness in his voice (“Oh.”), the slight shifts in the way he carries himself as
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Opera Comique
The Era commented, "We can hardly overpraise the beauty and grace of the Opera Comique as it now appears to the delighted audience."
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villainy
villainy, n. (ˈvɪlənɪ) Forms: α. 3–4 vileinie (3 uil-), 4 vileynye, vyleyny(e, vileyne; 4 vylaynye, vilaynie, 5 vilainy. β. 4 vilani(ie, wilani(e, 6 vilanie, 4–5 vylanye (6 -ie), 4–6 vylany, vilany(e; 4 velani(e, -ije, 4[5 velanye, 4–6 -any (5 -ane), 6 welany; 5 villane, wyllanye, Sc. willany, 6 vyl...
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