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

For although warfare had long since vanished from our civilization as it had matured, it took with it Nature's own unpleasant balance for her overgenerous fecundity.

From The Women-Stealers of Thrayx by Holden, Fox B.