too-generous

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too-generous - very generous; "distributed gifts with a lavish hand"; "the critics were lavish in their praise"; "a munificent gift"; "his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter and he thought them munificent"; "prodigal praise"; "unsparing generosity"; "his unstinted devotion"; "called for unstinting aid to Britain"

lavish, munificent, overgenerous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting

generous - willing to give and share unstintingly; "a generous donation"

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