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English
Etymology
From over- + appreciated.
Adjective
overappreciated (comparative more overappreciated, superlative most overappreciated)
- Excessively appreciated.
2015 September 23, Janet Maslin, “Review: ‘Finale’ by Thomas Mallon Moves Past ‘Watergate’ and Into the Reagan Era”, in New York Times:Nixon, watching Reagan seemingly leave political life, “suddenly recognized what no one else seemed to: that this blankly genial, overappreciated son of a bitch, two years older than himself, was heading not for a pasture but a short stretch of wilderness, on the other side of which lay something vast.”
1991, George Jonas, Politically Incorrect, page 307:As a rule, rulers' wives symbolize only the overappreciated women in any society — and I'd be the last person to blame them.