What is "overinflate"

Usage examples of "overinflate".

Eliza, so accustomed to being disappointing, begins to wonder if the singularity of this, her first achievement, has caused her to overinflate its importance.

But you, your first and solitary thought is fixated on membership in your paltry, overinflated council.

She turned back, studied him skeptically for a moment, before the harsh set of her features softened a notch, as if some air had been let out of an overinflated balloon.

Birdsong, until ordered otherwise-but ordered officially, not by overinflated, self-appointed pecksniffs like you.

He can evaluate the impact of our writers in translation and he can point out the demerits of our perhaps overinflated self-importance in this field.

I saddle-pound my tired ass up to the Cheviots and back, just to pump your overinflated ego up a little more.

They all know that I was with you last night and that we werent discussing your extremely procapitalist, anticommunist habit of overinflating the price of toilet paper.