overindulgent

Example Sentences

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025

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

From Science Magazine • May 3, 2023

I always think, "What would I like to hear from somebody else when we're making things like that? And would that be interesting, or is that just overindulgent or too dull or not finished enough?"

From Salon • Oct. 29, 2022

Winning if overindulgent crowd-pleasers are par for the course at Sundance; so are consciousness-raising documentaries in which attention-grabbing personalities jostle alongside hard-hitting subjects.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2022

And shall not I,—guardian of the households of my empire,—give a warning to all bold maidens against lifting their wills too proudly, or presuming upon an overindulgent king?

From A Victor of Salamis by Davis, William Stearns