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
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
His patently overgenerous compliments filled me with joy.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 18, 2016
Many put this apparently intractable scourge down to workers’ inadequate skills or overgenerous welfare states.
From Economist ● Oct. 23, 2014
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.
