overgenerous

Example Sentences

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Attempts to prolong the life in its current form of a company laid low by years of under-investment, overgenerous pay and dividends, poor regulation and changing climate may be doomed.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2025

“Yet children’s fibs, like old wives’ tales, tend to be overgenerous with the truth rather than economical with it.”

From The New Yorker • Jul. 16, 2018

And then of course there is the commission’s insistence that Apple should repay the €13bn in back taxes that it owes the Irish government because of overgenerous tax breaks provided to the company.

From The Guardian • Jul. 1, 2017

Rouvali combed through the pages of the First for new discoveries, something potent in the timpani or bird-like in the flute or overgenerous in the horns.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2016

Literature is not an overgenerous paymaster, and with a growing family expenses tend to increase in a larger ratio than income.

From A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment by Murdock, Charles A. (Charles Albert)