American naturalists of an earlier era gave the species an inflated reputation.

Was Lee a consummately skillful commander, or has he undeservedly enjoyed an inflated reputation?

Fo has a ludicrously inflated reputation in Britain - largely, I suspect, because he combines his left-wing views with an anarchic humour.

"I think," he wrote to his assistant, having apparently recovered from his spasm of condolence, "her inflated reputation ought to be dealt with."

To be sure, the aim of any National Football League draft is to find the hidden jewels in a field crowded with inflated reputations.

Even among the inflated reputations of the Paragons, Emma Steel had almost more reputation than one person could comfortably bear.

Only occasionally does the book deliver the kind of jolt that explains its prematurely inflated reputation.

To reduce the inflated reputation of (someone), esp.

It appears that his energies have instead gone toward preserving his inflated reputation.

But he was also aware that there had been Andermani fatalities, as well, and for once Harrington's grossly inflated reputation was a plus.