Colonel House and his party had not been fortunate in their weather during the crossing, and they had come to the conclusion that a fighting ship represented an overrated form of ocean liner.
That the public, receiving it at what we now term the psychological moment, may have overrated it is by no means impossible.
I have just received the news of the terrible misfortune which has befallen you and Malwine, My first thought was to come to you at once, but in wanting to do so I overrated my powers.
The thought of this overrated man marrying Laura was almost more than I could bear, but curiosity kept me silent, and she continued.
It cost him four pounds getting that gun repaired, and he confessed to me that, according to his experience, fowling was a greatly overrated sport.
In truth the lord of Plagnitz had, in his impatience to be really at home, rather overrated his strength.
Egon rose to dress after Wangen had left him, but he found that he had overratedhis strength.
In one sense, lovely Alice, you have neither overratedmy power nor my affection.
Now this seemed to me to indicate that the Danes meant to guard against attack by land from Poole; also that they overrated our numbers, which was probable in any case, seeing that a fleet had fled from before us.
A year ago we probably overratedyour military power.
I did, Meer Sahib, and my father will tell you that I have not overrated its efficacy.
He allowed that she had surprised him here; knowing of her in other days mainly that she was hungry to adopt an overrated profession he had not imputed to her the normal measure of intelligence.
He named it when he replied to her: "I've simply overrated my strength.
Sappho's absurdlyoverrated love-poems are not even good descriptions of normal sensual passion.
While these details show that Captain Cook overrated the civilization of the Tongans, there are other facts indicating that they were in some respects superior to other Polynesians, at any rate.
Even then, however, he perhaps overrated the necessity of Latin and Greek for this particular business of education, and underrated what could be done in sheer English.
The detective had probably overrated his own sagacity when he ventured to suspect Mr. Venner.
Some have deemed himoverrated by the nationality of the English.
One voice only struck a discordant note, the overrated Quaker Solon of Rochdale.
To any but enthusiasts of riding, Gibraltar was (and probably is) a most overrated station, with nothing to recommend it but its proximity to London.
The value of the work done by the Spanish guerillas was commonly muchoverrated by the Mexicans.
All that is at least very frankly acknowledged by Rodbertus, the remarkable but overrated thinker whom the State socialists of Germany have chosen for their father.
But he overrated the amount of the resources at his disposal for his protection from the weight of aversion he had excited.
Ralegh doubtless was sincere in repining for the radiance as in deprecating the scowls, though he overrated his ability to conjure that back, and these away.
Napoleon underrated the difficulties of his advance or elseoverrated his brother's military capacity.
I overratedmy power over your heart: I overrated still more, perhaps, my power over my own.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overrated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: exaggerated; glorified; overestimated
