overgenerous
Example Sentences
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But an overgenerous offer of fuel subsidies meant it could cost taxpayers an extra £490m.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2018
“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
On it there was a diminutive pancake which had made itself from the drippings of an overgenerous spoonful.
From The Wrong Woman by Charles D. Stewart
