overgenerous
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Attempts to prolong the life in its current form of a company laid low by years of under-investment, overgenerous pay and dividends, poor regulation and changing climate may be doomed.
From BBC • Mar. 16, 2025
Tea with an overgenerous splash of milk, if you want to talk beverages.
From The Guardian • Apr. 13, 2019
“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
On it there was a diminutive pancake which had made itself from the drippings of an overgenerous spoonful.
From The Wrong Woman by Stewart, Charles D.
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