(v. t.) To hold or value too highly; to estimate at too dear a rate.
Example Sentences:
Oversold
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Oversell
Example Sentences:
(1) Cancellation of the scheme to develop the role of care practitioner has caused dismay in the struggling social care sector, where there was already widespread anger that the chancellor had greatly oversold a supposed £3.5bn package of help for the sector that he unveiled in the review.
(2) Jones says that no one "needs" one and their benefits should not be oversold.
(3) He argues that the human genome project has been overhyped and oversold, that the legal and ethical issues posed by the project are real and unappreciated, and that the dangers as well as the opportunities should be rigorously and publicly explored.
(4) Joan B Wolf, professor of gender studies at Texas A&M University, contends that breastfeeding has been oversold because of three factors.
(5) "The biggest problem facing all of the UN courts today," he says, "is that they were so grossly oversold by human rights advocates during the 1990s.
(6) The prime minister may well be right when he says things are looking up – Britain is doing better on the jobs front than either the US or the euro area, which suggests that sterling may be oversold on the foreign exchanges.
(7) Examples are cited to argue that some mass prevention programs have been oversold.
(8) And the benefits of GMOS have been oversold by the industry: they haven’t, so far, done much to feed the hungry.
(9) Jack Warner had oversold tickets for the 22,000-seat stadium.
(10) Because of the public's interest in ART, its usefulness has been "oversold".
(11) Limited military options, such as air strikes against nuclear facilities, are "oversold as to their ability to end or even significantly delay Iran's nuclear program," the report says.
(12) They have oversold the benefits of prevention and underestimated the secondary effects.
(13) Others argued that opponents had oversold the importance of Keystone XL as a contributor to future climate change.