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How to use the word overrated in a Sentence?

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Physical dealers for automobile are overrated. If test drive is less desired by consumers in the 21st century, you no longer need physical dealerships.

Sandeep Aggarwal

added by letsdroomer
1 year ago

The truth is the most underrated thing on earth, falsity the most overrated. Albeit indirectly.

Goa Kerle

added by Goa_
2 years ago

I think it’s become clear that fairness is overrated ... the idea that we should always give two sides equal weight and merit does not reflect the world we find ourselves in, that the sun sets in the west is a fact. Any contrary view does not deserve our time or attention … Decisions to not give unsupported arguments equal time are not a dereliction of journalistic responsibility or some kind of agenda, in fact, it’s just the opposite.

Lester Holt

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Let's go knock on those doors. Do not sleep for the next 48 hours. Sleep's overrated.

Glenn Youngkin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I believe that( China and Australia) overrated the integrity of their borders, it just may not have been such a big problem with the Wuhan version. But then you get something much more transmissible, and then any breach is exposed.

Dale Fisher

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Once you get there and realize they are fine without medication and they can run without being treated, you learn quick it’s somewhat overrated with medications.

Kiaran McLaughlin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A Greek invention, democracy is highly overrated. For starters, it never worked in Greece. The first philosophers were fascists and, even today, 2,500 years later, the 'cradle of Western civilization' remains an incompetent state. Roman emperors and a vengeful, authoritarian God are the true European success stories.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

added by Woman of Tao
4 years ago

Living carefree is overrated & living cautious is underrated.

Jay Abiona

added by jayabiona
6 years ago

I’ve always felt it was overrated, obama got the votes much more so than his data processing machine. And I think the same is true with me.

Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We see ourselves as waging the idea battle on economics, at least to Republican primary voters, it's overrated how much how they drift toward personality. At the end of the day, it's really where the candidates are on policy.

Rich Danker

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Don't mistake passion and purpose for demagoguery. I choose emotion over apathy. Being completely rational is overrated.

Nicole Amesbury

added by anonymous
8 years ago

The data techniques are greatly overrated in their effectiveness outside of the U.S..

Stan Greenberg

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Sodium is overrated. Most people are not salt sensitive.

Jonny Bowden

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.

Quentin Crisp

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.

Larry McMurtry, "Flim Flam - Essays on Hollywood"

added by anonymous
13 years ago

We want God to come and save us. But he won't. God doesn't stop levees from failing, he doesn't stay the force of tsunamis, and he doesn't stop planes from smashing into buildings. Deus Ex Machina is overrated.

Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 09-09-05

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Having something to say is overrated.

Adair Lara

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite goodMaybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.

Jay Leno

added by anonymous
14 years ago

It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.

Newt Gingrich

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

John Kenneth Galbraith

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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