The word "overrated" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express that something is given too much credit or thought to be more impressive or remarkable than it actually is. For example: "The new movie was overrated; it was nowhere near as good as the critics said it was."
Our enthusiasm to tell the truth about David Beckham, that he was vastly overrated and much better deployed as the team mascot than as a walking-pace midfielder prone to yellow and red cards, was right.
True, the news agenda was different and splendid, but much else was overrated.
A highly amusing though grossly overrated book – it is no wonder that it was voted the 20th century's best American novel, because Americans sincerely believe that they actually invented style: the best that money can buy.
Richard Linklater's marvellous Boyhood has six nominations, but that is fewer than the decent but middling film The Imitation Game, about wartime codebreaker Alan Turing — and only as many as Clint Eastwood's fantastically dull and mediocre American Sniper, which has been hugely overrated.
Another American, Bershawn Jackson accused Greene of saying the Americans were "overrated" and said Greene had written a cheque that "he can't cash".
Stars of recent World Cups or European championships are overrated.
We should always remember the Benson and Hedges World Series Cup – fondly glorifying it, misremembering how slow the net run rates actually were, perennially overrating some of the ropey touring sides who made up the numbers against Australia and the West Indies and convincing the generations below us that it was cricket nirvana because occasionally, it truly was.
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 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.
Overrating their abilities, personality traits and prospects can help people overcome obstacles, persevere at difficult tasks and feel better about themselves.
