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adjective

munificent

larger or more generous than is usual or necessary

In a sentence

Six example sentences with munificent, each labelled with its topic.

  • A munificent bequest from a retired dentist paid for the entire wing, including the glass roof over the courtyard.

    Art

  • The offer was munificent by any standard, four months of salary and the laptop for anyone taking voluntary redundancy.

    Startups

  • Their munificent matching program doubles every staff donation, which pushed last year's charity total past two million dollars.

    Finance

  • A munificent grant from the Medici bank paid for the cathedral dome and the workshop that trained its builders.

    History

  • Pip's munificent secret benefactor pays for his London education, and the novel spends four hundred pages revealing who it was.

    Literature

  • The retired point guard made a munificent gift that rebuilt every outdoor court in the neighborhood where he grew up.

    Basketball

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