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overpriced

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verb

past tense of overprice

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for overpriced
Adjective
  • The Charlotte Observer found that all of CLT Airport’s parking lots are more expensive than all but one of the off-airport sites.
    Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Adapting homes and infrastructure to coastal flooding is not just expensive, but will have limitations.
    Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Incomes here are higher than the state average, but not exorbitant.
    Andrew DePietro, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Part of the reason for the exorbitant rise in the cost of college can be traced to a decades-long hiring spree for administrators and other non-academic faculty.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • While renting remains cheaper than buying across the U.S., monthly payments are still unaffordable for many.
    Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2025
  • However, in many regions, even where water is available, access can be unreliable and unaffordable.
    Matt Damon, TIME, 22 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • This number has been slightly inflated to include preview screenings.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 29 Dec. 2024
  • These disks, 5 millimeters in diameter and 265 microns thick, were then placed over an inflatable membrane, inflated like a balloon to form a dome, magnetized, and returned to their original flat state.
    Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Structural damage has made the landmark St. Peter Church on Franklin Square unstable, and the cost of repairs would be prohibitive, church officials said Monday.
    Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Control of the Postal Service could offer additional ways to undermine elections, perhaps by raising the price of postage, so that the cost to the states of mailing ballots would be prohibitive, or by banning the automatic mailing of ballots to voters.
    Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Staging Isn’t Cheap (But Neither Are Price Cuts) Properly done, staging can be pricey.
    John Walkup, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Tory Burch’s Spring Event Ends Soon Designer accessories are pretty…pricey.
    Alyssa Grabinski, People.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The results have been a large increase in energy costs for households and industry, driven by levies to subsidise uneconomic generation, and rising volatility in electricity markets accompanied by a higher risk of power outages in future.
    Gordon Hughes, National Review, 13 May 2024
  • Car-makers have warned that U.K. electric-vehicle manufacturing may become uneconomic under the existing U.K.-EU trade deal, which from 2024 requires 45% of the value of EVs to come from the U.K. or EU to avoid tariffs.
    WSJ, WSJ, 2 June 2023
Adjective
  • The words were harsh but the logic was not unreasonable.
    George Caulkin, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
  • This would not be an unreasonable proposition, considering the U.S. already pledged a security guarantee to Ukraine upon its return of all nuclear warheads to Russia by 1996, based on the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances.
    Seung-Whan Choi, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2025
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“Overpriced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overpriced. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.

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