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Using overrated

overrated if something is overrated it is not as good as somebody or as people have said it is so using this word in a particular example uh all of my friends told me to go and...

Course: Richer words and phrasesSection: Ways to describe too muchSubtitles: en

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so

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overrated if something is overrated it

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is not as good as somebody or as people

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have said it is so using this word in a

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particular example uh all of my friends

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told me to go and see the new

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Ghostbusters film uh they told me it was

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fantastic fantastic they told me it was

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amazing I went it was okay I think the

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film is a little bit

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overrated it is receiving more positive

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feedback than it really deserves we can

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use this to describe restaurants okay

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which are not as good as we expect them

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to be we can use it to describe any

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experience which does not

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match uh the information that we have

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previous been given about how good this

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thing is the opposite of overrated of

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course underrated over and

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underrated this is a really good one and

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if you can use it uh it's a nice a nice

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expression in excess of in excess of we

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use this to again Express that there is

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too much

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