overgenerous

Example Sentences

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“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

An overgenerous tipper even by US standards, I left two pound coins for the barman on the bar after paying for that pint.

From BBC • Jun. 20, 2013

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)