Meanings of overgenerous in English

Captain Crouan, I fear you have been overgenerous in pouring the wine.

Goldman was the best, and I found his overgenerous compliments unnerving.

His lips were full, almost overgenerous, and his color was high and healthy.

The Hay-Herran Treaty, if it erred at all, erred in being overgenerous toward Colombia.

He found his packet of rice papers and took an overgenerous amount of the treated weed.

This summer has given us plenty of oxygen, but it hasn't been overgenerous with high-quality ultraviolet light.

On it there was a diminutive pancake which had made itself from the drippings of an overgenerous spoonful.

She seemed to give Honor complete credit for that, although Honor felt that that was overgenerous of her.

Carbon trading, based on dubious economics, has become a massive scandal, replete with overgenerous emissions allowances, misreporting and fictitious projects.

Too often we're overprotective, we overintervene and we can also be overgenerous with material things, for fear of disappointing a child.

Literature is not an overgenerous paymaster, and with a growing family expenses tend to increase in a larger ratio than income.

Few Web diehards need convincing on the point that fan sites are, if anything, overgenerous in their larding of free publicity on typically undeserving subjects.

That's a rate of increase 3½ times greater than the 14 per cent rise in spending that our already overgenerous budget had allowed for.

"Think we're being overgenerous?" Jaggard said, and his scar smiled again.

"Nature was overgenerous with that young lady," Farrel decided, as he made his way up to the smoking-car.

Captain Crouan, I fear you have been overgenerous in pouring the wine.