Crossword clues for overvalue
overvalue
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overvalue \O`ver*val"ue\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Overvalued; p. pr. & vb. n. Overvaluing.]
To value excessively; to rate at too high a price. ``To overvalue human power.''
--Holyday.To exceed in value. [R.]
--H. Brooke.
Wiktionary
vb. To assign an excessive value to something.
WordNet
v. assign too high a value to; "You are overestimating the value of your old car" [syn: overestimate] [ant: undervalue, undervalue]
Usage examples of "overvalue".
I get a heavenly high from surrendering my power to a narcissist, to catering to them, in having them overvalue and need me, and it is the only time that I truly feel alive.
She knew that she was called The Wonder by the schoolmates who were dazzled by her singular accomplishments, but she did not overvalue them.
Here we cannot help observing, that as there is so much of policy in the lowest life, great men often overvalue themselves on these refinements in imposture, in which they are frequently excelled by some of the lowest of the human species.
Powhatan and his presents of basin and ewer, bed, bedding, clothes, and such costly novelties, they had been much better well spared than so ill spent, for we had his favor and better for a plain piece of copper, till this stately kind of soliciting made him so much overvalue himself that he respected us as much as nothing at all.
What other results could have been expected when American society began to overvalue on the one hand security, censorship, an imagined world-saving idealism and self-sacrifice in war, and on the other hand insatiable hunger for possessions, fiercely competitive aggressiveness, sadistic male belligerence, contempt for parents and the state, and a fantastically overstimulated sexuality?
I have perhaps overvalued the body as a vehicle for cultural integrity.
Cashel knew his own strength, but when he was excited he sometimes overvalued the strength of other people.
He told me a thousand times physical beauty is grotesquely overvalued in our society, and those who possess it are more cursed than blessed.
It may be an overvalued condition in most expendable slaves, but I need yours to persist awhile longer.
Haft peasants are just as capable of overvaluing themselves as the highest nobles on Ornifal are.
She knew that she was called The Wonder by the schoolmates who were dazzled by her singular accomplishments, but she did not overvalue them.
If his analyst’s eye told him the stocks were overvalued, his trader’s logic steadied him.
It may be an overvalued condition in most expendable slaves, but I need yours to persist awhile longer.
I’ve overvalued its woody, whorled coves and harbours, convincing myself of an architectural spaciousness and, at the same time, coziness, when I really, long ago, should have pursued some professional decorating advice.
He told me a thousand times physical beauty is grotesquely overvalued in our society, and those who possess it are more cursed than blessed.