Crossword-Solution: OVERPRIZE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Overprize | v. t. | Toprize excessively; to overvalue. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “OVERPRIZE”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Treasure too highly | 1 answer |
| overvalue | 3 answers |
| overprize | 4 answers |
| overestimate | 6 answers |
| overrate | 9 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OVERPRIZE (5)
Every craftsman thinks his own trade the one pillar of the commonweal.” “Well! your worship,” quoth Yeo, “it may be that being a gunner I overprize guns.
But take heed withal, lest that whilst thou dust settle thy contentment in things present, thou grow in time so to overprize them, as that the want of them (whensoever it shall so fall out) should be a trouble and a vexation unto thee.
The righteous would be too light in asking, and would too much overprize their works, if their God should not sometimes deal in this manner with them.
XXVIII To such as say thy love I overprize, And do not stick to term my praises folly, Against these folks that think themselves so wise, I thus oppose my reason's forces wholly: Though I give more than well affords my state, In which expense the most suppose me vain Which yields them nothing at the easiest rate, Yet at this price returns me treble gain; They value not, unskilful how to use, And I give much because I gain thereby.
But in laps’d nature rooted deep, Blind error domineers; And on fools’ errands, in the dark, Sends out our hopes and fears; Bids us for ever pains deplore, Our pleasures overprize; These oft persuade us to be weak; Those urge us to be wise.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1975).