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

The contributor wrote that they had seen a rise in "spoilt" children with "demanding behaviour due to overindulgent parenting".

From BBC • Dec. 4, 2025

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