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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
overpriced
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
overpriced Italian restaurants
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Arbitrage restores the no-arbitrage condition by increasing the demand for the underpriced asset and increasing the supply of the overpriced asset.
▪ As Compaq's products become more like other firms', they are starting to look overpriced.
▪ Blackburn Rovers have spent £10 million so far and seem willing to lash out even more on overpriced players.
▪ But her enthusiasm was swiftly dampened by a visit to a curio shop, where she bought several overpriced souvenirs.
▪ It has a restaurant and a tiny general store with overpriced merchandise.
▪ The propaganda was being poured as thickly as the overpriced highway concrete.
▪ Wall Street salesmen then try to fool investors into buying the overpriced merchandise.
Wiktionary
overpriced
  1. Priced higher than what it is really worth. v

  2. (en-past of: overprice)

WordNet
overpriced

adj. too costly for the value; "overpriced items at resort shops"

Usage examples of "overpriced".

A tall man in cornrows, gold chains, and overpriced designer sunglasses approached the door just as Woolsey started through it.

Especially freedom from her overambitious ex-husband and their overpriced suburban castle which had finally sold after a year of open-house hell.

Papillon, Grillon and Sauterelle, all were sent into the Blot and all returned clutching overpriced Beasley souvenirs and unable to perform their duty to France.

The food in the theme restaurants, as if determined to maintain the ambiance, was badly prepared, overpriced, and served in the tackiest of surroundings by surly waiters who spent their inebriated off-time proclaiming their eternal hatred of tourists.

His thoughts, to judge by what he said to Cotton Tufts, were on home and some marshland he wished to buy, overpriced though it might be.

Phil sprang for a grossly overpriced bottle of Vouvray and was floating in a mild alcoholic buzz when Nancy asked him about his plans for 111 Rve Street.

Over a bottle of overpriced claret, we listened to one more young Blairite make his pitch for our business.

There were also piles and piles of mass produced bric-a-brac for the tourist trade: overpriced feathered masks, plastic krewe doubloons from Mardi Gras past, rubber crawfish keyrings, suitably primitive-looking voodoo dolls that came with pins included.

Gnawer lair led across vacant rubble-strewn lots, down streets lined with storefront churches, overpriced, grocery and liquor stores, cheap eateries offering fast food soaked with grease, vacant buildings with smashed windows and cryptic, elaborate graffiti sprayed in layers across their walls.

None of the miserable fleabitten overpriced understaffed crowded smelly firetraps near the river.

If we weren't gathering great armloads of overpriced trinkets, the locals would be muttering behind their hands and wondering what was wrong with us.

Established closers were systematically overpriced, in large part because of the statistic by which closers were judged in the marketplace: "saves.

But Eddie thought there was nothing finer than the sight of a minister being doorstepped and harried all the way from his shiny office door to his overpriced privilege of a chauffeur-driven limo by a pack of reporters.

We'll spend wads of money on overpriced beauty products we'll never use and lounge around in bathrobes all day.

Christina and Anna sat on the screened-in porch drinking a chilled California blush wine and eating overpriced artichokes.