overgenerous

Example Sentences

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But an overgenerous offer of fuel subsidies meant it could cost taxpayers an extra £490m.

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2018

“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

The Hay-Herran Treaty, if it erred at all, erred in being overgenerous toward Colombia.

From Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography by Roosevelt, Theodore