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
“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
Companies need to put more effort into guarding the guards—training them in how to conduct reviews and holding them accountable if they are overgenerous or otherwise sloppy.
From Economist • Feb. 16, 2016
Literature is not an overgenerous paymaster, and with a growing family expenses tend to increase in a larger ratio than income.
From A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment by Murdock, Charles A. (Charles Albert)
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