overgenerous

Example Sentences

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An overgenerous offer of fuel subsidies meant costs spiralled out of control, leaving NI taxpayers with a £490m bill.

From BBC • Sep. 25, 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

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

The Luthers were never "well-to-do"; sometimes they were so short of money—for Luther was overgenerous in his charities—as to feel the pinch of poverty.

From Harper's Round Table, August 27, 1895 by Various