Words similar to overhype
Example sentences for: overhype
How can you use “overhype” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Overhype implies there is some normal level of "hypeness," like body temperature or blood pressure, which in healthy individuals and societies maintains a certain constancy, but which can rise or fall to dangerous levels.
Overhype is, in its way, a strategically brilliant term.
It suggests that anyone who finds overhype unreasonable speaks with a voice of moderation--"C'mon, enough is enough"--while at the same time setting the ceiling at a level far higher than what any ordinary person would find acceptable or sufficient.
(Note: An alternative etymology of hype would derive the word from the Greek hyper , meaning "over," so that to overhype something is to "over-over" it--more straightforwardly logical but not nearly as evocative, in my view.)
As far as I can tell, however, the word overhype was nowhere to be found.
Loading...