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

The Luthers were never "well-to-do"; sometimes they were so short of money—for Luther was overgenerous in his charities—as to feel the pinch of poverty.

From Harper's Round Table, August 27, 1895 by Various