Example Sentences

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The camera work, highly accomplished of its romantic kind, drips with purple adjectives; it is profusely overappreciative of images that are beautiful enough to be merely looked at, without urging or comment.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her keen need of it makes her overappreciative and undercritical.

From The Business of Being a Woman by Tarbell, Ida M.