Overpublicize

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To publicize excessively. transitive

    "After his heroic confrontation with cold blood in Kansas, Capote retreated to a tree house in Manhattan, there to play literary games for ever smaller and overpublicized stakes."

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"After his heroic confrontation with cold blood in Kansas, Capote retreated to a tree house in Manhattan, there to play literary games for ever smaller and overpublicized stakes."

Etymology

From over- + publicize.

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