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21give someone a big head — verb To flatter someone excessively; to overpraise someone, usually resulting in them becoming proud, arrogant or conceited. Please stop telling me how smart I am youll give me a big head! …
22superpraise — verb To overpraise. If you were men, as men you are in show, / You would not use a gentle lady so; / To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts, When, I am sure, you hate me with your hearts …
23essaylike — adjective Resembling or characteristic of an essay. He championed the essaylike novel mainly because Tanizaki appeared to overpraise the novel that had an interesting story to tell …
24adulate — I verb acclaim, admire, applaud, approbate, approve, celebrate, commend, compliment, eulogize, exalt, express, extol, flatter, glorify, idolize, laud, lionize, overpraise, pay tribute to, praise, salute II index overestimate Burton s Legal… …
25doxology — I noun adulation, compliment, glorification, hero worship, idolatry, laudation, overpraise, paean, praise II index laudation Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
26exaggeration — I noun addition, aggrandizement, augmentation, boast, brag, caricature, disproportion, distortion, embellishment, embroidery, enlargement, excess, excessiveness, exorbitance, exorbitancy, expansion, extravagance, extravagant statement, extremes,… …
27overestimate — I verb adulate, aggrandize, attach too much importance to, enlarge, estimate too highly, exaggerate, exalt, exceed, expand, extol, flatter, glorify, inflate, magnify, make too much of, maximize, misestimate, misjudge, misrepresent, overassess,… …
28accolade — Synonyms and related words: adulation, apotheosis, award, badge, bays, bepraisement, citation, congratulation, decoration, deification, distinction, eloge, encomium, eulogium, eulogy, exaltation, excessive praise, flattery, glorification, glory,… …
29adulation — Synonyms and related words: acclaim, accolade, apotheosis, applause, bepraisement, blandishment, blarney, bunkum, cajolement, cajolery, compliment, congratulation, deification, eloge, encomium, eulogium, eulogy, exaltation, excessive praise,… …
30aggrandize — Synonyms and related words: add to, advance, amplify, apotheose, apotheosize, augment, ballyhoo, beatify, beef up, bloat, blow up, boost, broaden, build, build up, bulk, bulk out, burlesque, canonize, caricature, carry too far, crescendo, crown,… …
