Example sentences for: overrated

How can you use “overrated” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I think Michael Kinsley is an incredibly overrated editor and really belongs at the New York Times , where his mediocre talents would fit right in.

  • This hourlong work, which was commissioned by ABC but never shown, is another famous bootleg--it has circulated in samizdat for years--and also an overrated one.

  • Robert Wise's 1963 original, based on Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House , is overrated, but it manages to evoke the eeriest aspect of Jackson's fiction: the way the characters' neuroses acquire an inexorable life of their own and threaten to eat them alive.

  • ) An essay claims skating's quadruple jump (Stojko's specialty) is overrated, and shouldn't be a prerequisite for the gold.

  • Shaw read it and responded enthusiastically: “I urged as strongly as I could the reprinting of Professor Wilson's treatise in a modestly priced edition baited for the British book market with a preface by myself: an overrated attraction commercially, but one which still imposes on London publishers.”


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