overindulge
verb (used with or without object)
to indulge to excess.
overindulgent
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a word derived from
overindulge.
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
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
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 Mary Wood-Allen
