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Discover LudwigThe phrase "overblown praise" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to compliments or expressions of admiration that are excessive or exaggerated. For example: "I don't think we need to give him overblown praise for his efforts - his work speaks for itself."
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Reading some students' overblown praise, and others' righteous anger, made me crave objective criteria for evaluating teachers.
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Today, he is dismissed by the so-called establishment as over exuberant and wordy, his books overwrought, overblown, over praised and overrated.
For all the overblown rhetoric in praise of their Great Leaders, the unions do a lousy job of improving the lot of the average worker.
But even if the book seems a little overblown in its praise and sometimes a bit schmaltzy — the Burtons' "Liz and Dick" tabloid personas were "perhaps their greatest roles" — the authors make shrewd observations.
This praise, amplified thousands of times online, was overblown.
If the alarms sounded before this tournament were overblown, so, too, have been the heaping helpings of praise that followed.
And it's also why the furor over Barack Obama's praise for Ronald Reagan is not, as some think, overblown.
Brinkley was praised for her writing (it's easy to see why: overblown, yet so satisfying; maybe the only word to describe it is "delicious") but her drawings made her famous.
It gets overblown sometimes".
That is overblown.
This argument is overblown.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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