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- adjective
generous to an excessive degree
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- adjective very generous
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Examples
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There is no such thing as "overgenerous" your chestal area is an altar that makes for great artists to CREATE the very concept of camera work.
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But the uncomfortable truth is that, with overgenerous subsidies failing to keep pace with plummeting costs, this boom has been built on unsustainable foundations.
Britain's solar energy boom is built on unsustainable foundations
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Should overgenerous pursuit of the Profit motive be punished, even if it can be proven to have been dangerous?
Asbestos Litigation Costs, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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So we are treated to an overgenerous selection of Duffy's instrumental themes and some second-tier B-sides.
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Contrasting with these are songs by Cecile Chaminade, more intimate works that may not fit as well into the overgenerous spaces of the Kennedy Center Concert Hall.
Opera singer Joyce DiDonato talks about her all-American work ethic
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End overgenerous Public Employee compensation (no more pensions – 401Ks for everybody)
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The euro crisis is at its heart a competitiveness crisis and without efforts to address low productivity, weak growth and overgenerous welfare systems, a default would only provide a temporary respite before problems re-emerged.
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Getting rid of teachers unions and overgenerous, underfunded public pensions is something states will have to do to remain solvent.
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It's overgenerous to call what Family Guy does satire because it's not terribly smart.
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Instead money is dispersed for overgenerous and insufficiently-demanding packages for medical staff, and a host of diversity and other politically-correct initiatives that irritate staff and patients alike.
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