Reward excessively

Usage examples of overpay.

The postage on those packages should slightly overpay their way, not underpay them.

Apparently, the clinic was suspected of any number of violations, from overpaying our suppliers to submitting false or inflated claims for services.

He talked openly of running for president, while overpaying for every gaudy object that caught his eye, like some overcapitalized raccoon.

Eight bucks a ticket, for what Luther knew would be another dull two hours of overpaid clowns giggling their way through a subliterate plot.

Because of that damnfool letter you and the others wrote to the Times, she described you as arrogant and overpaid.

How much would he have to overpay us for our next three cargoes to assure us of his goodwill?

But when anyone anywhere in the world wants to express their prejudice about Germans, they don't tell you how much they hate those Germans in the East — who suffer enough already — all anti-German feeling is directed against the overtaxed, overworked Westies who prop up the overpaid, incompetent bureaucrats of the Common Market and finance its ever-increasing surplus so it can sell more and more bargain-priced wine and butter to the Russians.

But when anyone anywhere in the world wants to express their prejudice about Germans, they don't tell you how much they hate those Germans in the East who suffer enough already all anti-German feeling is directed against the overtaxed, overworked Westies who prop up the overpaid, incompetent bureaucrats of the Common Market and finance its ever-increasing surplus so it can sell more and more bargain-priced wine and butter to the Russians.

I came quickly to hate (unjustifiably) Tom's now-not-so-famous meat loaf as an immovable object, and I settled not very happily into a position that was more overpaid line cook than chef.

I managed a condo in North Miami Beach for three years before coming up here, and they all complained down there because they thought I was overpaid.

They're easy to recognize because they're the overpaid, overdressed bastards with swords and you aim for them first.

Those men are what soldiers always are: victims of their officers, and if you want to find where the French have sown their mischief, sir, then you look among those damned, overpaid, overdressed, overfed bloody officers," and Sharpe threw a scornful glance towards the Real Companïa Irlandesa's officers who seemed unsure whether or not they were supposed to follow their men northwards.

He'd prefer not to use any local workers for the risks of espionage and terrorism they posed, but the General Assembly didn't want to send more overpaid government employees.

They were overpaid because of laws passed by the General Assembly under pressure from their unions.

Those same unions had it written into their contracts that the employees couldn't actually be sent anywhere useful, as it presented a risk to those overpaid employees.