The word 'overrate' is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used when you want to express the idea of overestimating the value of something. Example sentence: Many people tend to overrate their own abilities.
It's a bit less correct as it concerns the Democrats: they really can't keep punting on an investigation of Charlie Rangel, the Ways and Means Committee chairman in the House whose minor financial scandals continue to fester.One point Ms Fairbanks leaves out is that Republicans overrate the role "corruption" played in the party's downfall.
But they overrate the political gains to be made.
But their official titles both overrate and underrate their authority.
But to expect early, and open, government-to-government talks may be to overrate the extent of Mr Khatami's authority: the advantages of calmer relations with America have to creep up on Iran, not explode in the mullahs' faces.Saudi Arabia, which long resented Iran's Islamic pretensions and feared its meddling, is now offering its services as broker to advance an Iranian-American dialogue.
Naomi Alderman, in one of the most unsentimental reflections in the book, moves the debate on by appearing to undermine it with the idea that we may overrate happiness, and that it might even inspire a lack of compassion: "I don't know how much I rate happiness.
Gregson then held forth about ancient philosophy: "one shouldn't overrate (it)… for instance, the ancient philosophers were foxed by Zeno's conundrum of the race between Achilles and the tortoise".
Why do people overrate the restaurants local to them?
But probably an authority of even greater weight than Augustine was needed to counteract a reason that was tending to overrate its own powers; and this authority was attributed, although falsely, to the works of Denis the Areopagite.
We will ourselves both to overlook the obvious chicanery and to overrate the apparent obstacles.
"Why You Wanna See My Bad Side," the opener of "Love Breeze," has a percolating disco beat, stabbing horns, and a typically Robinsonian lyric, formalist but slippery — "You have me doing things against my nature / Sometimes I think I overrate you" turns against itself before you're even out of the couplet.
My pet peeve is how frequently people overrate cable dramas and underrate network sitcoms, and this show is Exhibit A. 2. I'll be reviewing Season 2 of "Girls" soon enough, but that show certainly qualifies as the best series about which I have read the most annoying essays.
