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generous English

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generous

A generous person is one who gives time or money to help others. Erasmus Darwin was a generous man who helped many people.

generous

willing to give and share unstintingly a generous donation not petty in character and mind unusually generous in his judgment of people more than adequate a generous portion

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Simple sentences

Tom used to be generous.
You had better not play on his generous nature.
Try to be generous and forgive.
A generous tax break will be provided to foreign companies that set up factories in the area.
The villagers thought him very generous.
My uncle is generous with his money.
He is always generous to poor people.
He is by nature a generous person.
Being overly generous is his greatest fault.
Strangely, he passed up her very generous offer.
Let us be fully aware of all the importance of this day, because today within the generous walls of Boulogne-sur-Mer have met not French with English, nor Russians with Polish, but people with people.
I appreciated my neighbor's generous offer.
Wherever you go, you will meet people who are kind and generous.
He is generous to his opponents.
He is generous with his money.
He is generous to his friends.
Mother Nature is generous.
Tom is a very kind and generous man.
He's generous with his money.
But let me thank you for your generous words, at least. I have had none spoken to me in so long.
Tom is generous.
You're generous.

Movie subtitles

I think it will benefit you more rather then trying to mimic being generous with rotten grain.
You're a generous boss.
The students will march in a torchlight parade tonight in honor of our generous benefactor.
And if you ever show up around here again I may not be so generous.
I hope he'll be as generous.
It's very generous.
Oh, isn't he generous.
I think it's very generous of you not to hate me.
Mrs. Claypool, it is most generous of you to help us.
A season made possible by the generous checks of Mrs. Claypool.
I think I'm being more than generous here.
Oh, you were feeling kind of generous tonight, weren't you?
If we were to be generous, be properly. Give them an explanation.
Well, I don't think you're very generous.
They're generous and behaving like lords.
Should your daughter reconsider my generous offer. to become my wife, we could forget this little matter. And it could be her wedding present.
That's generous of you.
Always so generous.
He thanks you. He said you're very generous.
And now that you've been so generous. I think I'll say thank you and run along.
That was very generous of you, Tarzan.
The Empress is a generous lady.
That's very generous of you.
Mmm-hmm. Well, if you keep your part of the agreement, I'll be very generous. We'll go to the prize fights.
Linda has many generous impulses.
To love, you must be generous.
You are very generous, Mr. Igor.
You don't know how generous you are, Ezra.
You're generous.
You're too generous.
What a generous man!
I'm sure you're very generous.
That's generous of you, Scarlett.
She's a girl who's generous to a fault.
Well uncle, I think I've been more than generous, leaving you so long with Myra.
He had a generous mind. I don't suppose anybody ever had so many opinions.
You're a girl with her heart just where it ought to be. Maybe a little too generous.
Be generous, Mr. Spade.

News and current affairs

A generous visa regime and the use of regional development funds in Ukraine that will benefit impoverished eastern Poland, are two possible inducements.
International support so far has been generous, but it is still well below per capita equivalents for other post-conflict situations - and the need is much greater.
The West has a big incentive to be generous to Afghanistan's rural poor.
That, together with a high ranking for volunteering time, led it to tie with Myanmar as the most generous nation in the world.
Several studies show that people who are generous are typically happier and more satisfied with their lives than those who do not give.
Why are these antitrust tools not used against today's megabanks, which have become so powerful that they can sway legislation and regulation massively in their favor, while also receiving generous taxpayer-financed bailouts as needed?
Its humanitarian assistance, to put it politely, is less than generous.
Koreans need to step up, speak out, and do more, and that should start with more generous official development assistance.
Working life needs to be lengthened, public pensions are often too generous, labor markets too rigid.
Perhaps when no one is looking, they are not generous at all.
That is not generous at all.
Thanks to generous US aid --Taiwan was for several decades second only to Israel in the amount of American aid received --Taiwan could send its best university students, especially engineers, to study abroad.
By offering generous economic incentives to its Southeast Asian neighbors, it has weakened their will to confront China in a coalition.
In response to the crisis of 2007-2009, governments in most industrialized countries put in place some of the most generous bailouts ever seen for large financial institutions.
Yet even this growth was not enough, given previous governments' generous promises of health care and pensions - promises made even less tenable by rising life expectancy and falling birth rates.
Today, that figure is 200,000, thanks in large measure to generous support from the United States (under its PEPFAR program) and the Global Fund in Geneva.
Absurdly generous compensation in the financial sector induced some of our best minds to go into banking.
This will depend on whether the United States conditions its generous aid to cash-strapped Pakistan on noninterference in Afghanistan.
This revolution will be tremendously generous to those countries that embrace it - and utterly indifferent, even cruel, to those that ignore it or let it pass by.
The real problem with a generous wage settlement with public-sector unions is that private-sector unions could use it to get more than their productivity gains warrant.
If immigration countries suffer from chronic unemployment because wages are overly generous and rigid, as seems the case in most West European countries, migrants who find work will simply displace nationals from their jobs.
And, to be blunt, it was some of Wall Street's biggest players, not overleveraged homeowners, who received generous government bailouts in the aftermath of the crisis.
In Libya, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's appalling tyranny has collapsed; the EU will be generous in helping the Libyan people start to build a modern pluralist society.

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