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

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

Many put this apparently intractable scourge down to workers’ inadequate skills or overgenerous welfare states.

From Economist • Oct. 23, 2014

“Here comes a girl from the house,” said Cora, as down the path a girl, in generous sunbonnet, and overgenerous apron, was seen to approach.

From The Motor Girls at Lookout Beach In Quest of the Runaways by Penrose, Margaret