overgenerous

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

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

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.