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fulsome
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep" [syn: buttery ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fulsome \Ful"some\, a. [Full, a. + -some.] Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled. [Obs.] His lean, pale, hoar, and withered corpse grew fulsome, fair, and fresh. --Golding. Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-13c., "abundant, plentiful," Middle English compound of ful "full" (see full (adj.)) + -som "to a considerable degree" (see -some (1)). Perhaps a case of ironic understatement. Sense extended to "plump, well-fed" (mid-14c.), then "arousing disgust" ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 offensive to good taste, tactless, overzealous, excessive. 2 excessively flattering (connoting insincerity). 3 abundant, copious. 4 Fully developed, mature.
Usage examples of fulsome.
Listening to such fulsome praise was seductive, like having a sloe-eyed dancer sway before you while the tambours and pandouras poured forth a passionate tune.
Karitas - noting everything - would shout for joy over an extra quarter-inch on an arm raise, offering fulsome congratulations and calling in Selah or Curopet, insisting Shannow repeat the move.
The maize porridge was unsalted and unflavored pap, and the portion no more than three spoonfuls, but the Captain expected fulsome acknowledgment of his generosity.
Upon women of all classes and ages he exerts without trying a charm the consciousness of which would have turned any head less constant than his own, and with their fulsome adoration he was pleased none the less for perceiving its real value.
Caesar stood surrounded by delighted patricians, accepting their fulsome compliments for his taste and imagination.
Always the sun grew larger and hotter above the fuming swamps that teemed with a crasser life, with a more fulsome vegetation.
Kai said, disclaiming their fulsome compliments, "and, of course, we don't know how the polar region or the southern tip have changed with tectonic action .
Sitting between Jennifer and Dave, Paul was glancing around the hall, only half listening to the chairmans fulsome introduction of the evenings keynote speaker, when he was hit by the probe.
Howbeit, as the beer well sodden in the brewing, and stale, is clear and well coloured as muscadel or malvesey, or rather yellow as the gold noble, as our pot-knights call it, so our ale, which is not at all or very little sodden, and without hops, is more thick, fulsome, and of no such continuance, which are three notable things to be considered in that liquor.
His nominating speech went on for almost an hour, but the applause greeting it was not Particularly fulsome.