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

"This illness can be portrayed as someone being overindulgent or greedy and that is simply not the case," she said.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2025

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

From Science Magazine • May 3, 2023

Of course, for their pains, these two grown-up children of God were called overindulgent; it was prophesied that they would spoil us; yet it was this that kept Ellen’s audacities always sweet.

From The Heart's Country by Vorse, Mary Heaton