Betekenis van:
too-generous

Voorbeeldzinnen

1. You're too generous.
2. It's his greatest fault to be too generous.
3. Therefore, putting on one side imaginary things concerning a prince, and discussing those which are real, I say that all men when they are spoken of, and chiefly princes for being more highly placed, are remarkable for some of those qualities which bring them either blame or praise; and thus it is that one is reputed liberal, another miserly, using a Tuscan term (because an avaricious person in our language is still he who desires to possess by robbery, whilst we call one miserly who deprives himself too much of the use of his own); one is reputed generous, one rapacious; one cruel, one compassionate; one faithless, another faithful; one effeminate and cowardly, another bold and brave; one affable, another haughty; one lascivious, another chaste; one sincere, another cunning; one hard, another easy; one grave, another frivolous; one religious, another unbelieving, and the like.
4. The combination of these two advantages would have rendered the aid too generous for the beneficiary.
5. It became evident, too, that in most of the cases assessed in this Decision the reimbursements did not follow the initial schedule; delays were allowed, making the terms more generous to the recipient.