Sentence examples for an overstated from inspiring English sources

Necessary has always seemed an overstated word to me.

But others fear it will needlessly criminalise a generation of men.Religion, however, is an overstated problem.

Like so many other projects in the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan, the transit center was announced with an understated budget and an overstated timetable.

Wagnerian is not an overstated description of the spectacular races it has hosted, and for the awful toll it has exacted.

Those lost and the rest of us who witnessed the tragedy are not well served by such an overstated loss of hope.

The company estimated that the average debit card will be for about $88, based on a typical car driven 15,000 miles this year that had an overstated fuel economy of 1 mile per gallon.

Glenn Speer, writing in The Washington Post, found Mr. Flexner's claim of being an outsider overstated, given his great success.

For the first time in decades, there appears to be a chance that a half-acre terrazzo road map of New York State from the 1964-65 World's Fair — an exuberantly overstated mix of small-town parochialism, space-age optimism and Pop Art irony — will be conserved as the valuable artifact it is.

Is that an accurate, overstated, or ridiculous comparison ?

Whitney's reputation as a supergroup is perhaps a little overstated.

In a droll, overstated new book, "Against Love: A Polemic" (Pantheon; $24), Laura Kipnis describes a different kind of marital conversation.