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

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

His patently overgenerous compliments filled me with joy.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 18, 2016

Few schools can boast of overgenerous appropriations; many not infrequently have failed to receive all that has been asked for, and have thus often been prevented from doing their best work.

From The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States by Best, Harry