overindulgent

Example Sentences

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The result is not just sluggish but overindulgent.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

The stock market’s Santa is being generous this year, but not overindulgent.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025

In overindulgent headlines and ill-advised body-copy, would be defenders of the faith of Scientism gleefully celebrated missing the entire point of panpsychism across some widely circulating and uninformed articles that I’d rather not further promote.

From Salon • Apr. 1, 2024

He could be tetchy one moment, and ridiculously overindulgent the next.

From Science Magazine • May 3, 2023

Which child had been better protected—the one who had been cared for by an overindulgent parent, or the one who, by judicious stimulation to self-help, had learned to care for himself?

From What a Young Woman Ought to Know by Wood-Allen, Mary