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Synonyms for overcompensate

make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities

make excessive corrections for fear of making an error

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Norwegian Air Shuttle is overcompensating the increase heavily in relation to actual costs, according to Pareto's analysis, entitled "Greed is good and it may work".
We may have matured quite unevenly: overgrown and overcompensating here, startlingly beautiful there, and barren in some hidden center that no one else may see.
But the Limerick-born stand-up says his clipped tones are the result of "overcompensating" as a child to be understood by English kids after his parents moved from Ireland.
But avoiding overcompensating requires a big-picture view: a holistic, integrated approach that considers the cumulative value and impact of each decision on the total compensation package.
We're going out of our heads overcompensating for our low self-esteem and anxiety by overprotecting and overparenting our kids.
With regard to marriage and sexuality in particular, Christian thought has oscillated between extremes: suspicion about the intrinsic goodness of sexuality or, overcompensating for that negative approach, an overly-romanticized, idyllic depiction of marriage and of marital sexuality.
'It's just a case of overcompensating for other problems.'
"My wife says I'm overcompensating for not doing well the first half of my life," Dr.
And here's another trend this little company has no intention of following: overcompensating management.
`She's overcompensating for the lack of control she feels in public when she's not surrounded by her massive entourage.'
"If a CEO is trying too hard to make me see what a good guy he is, it makes me wonder if he isn't in over his head and overcompensating," says Merrill's Fine.
Make up for that deficiency by overcompensating on customer service.
State tort reforms may have unintended consequences, in particular, overcompensating plaintiffs relative to the true present value of future damages.
In fact, the best available evidence suggests that there is almost a 100 percent probability that we are overcompensating the average social security recipient for increases in the cost of living and almost a 100 percent probability that we are causing the inflation-adjusted burden of the income tax system to decline more rapidly than I presume the Congress intends.