overgenerous
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“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
And then of course there is the commission’s insistence that Apple should repay the €13bn in back taxes that it owes the Irish government because of overgenerous tax breaks provided to the company.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 1, 2017
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
Many put this apparently intractable scourge down to workers’ inadequate skills or overgenerous welfare states.
From Economist ● Oct. 23, 2014
The Hay-Herran Treaty, if it erred at all, erred in being overgenerous toward Colombia.
From Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt
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