Crossword clues for fulsomeness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fulsome \Ful"some\, a. [Full, a. + -some.]
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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; nauseous; esp., offensive from excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery.
And lest the fulsome artifice should fail Themselves will hide its coarseness with a veil.
--Cowper. Lustful; wanton; obscene; also, tending to obscenity. [Obs.] ``Fulsome ewes.''
--Shak. -- Ful"some*ly, adv. -- Ful"some*ness, n.
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
n. The state or quality of being fulsome or showing overdone and insincere flattery.
WordNet
n. excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm [syn: unction, smarm]
smug self-serving earnestness [syn: oiliness, oleaginousness, smarminess, unctuousness, unction]
Usage examples of "fulsomeness".
Miraculously, the morning continued to hold fair-though telltale cloud formations promised an expeditious return to more conventional meteorological fulsomeness not too many metacycles hence.
Jetro Yi’s instinctive and obsequious reaction lacked much of its usual fulsomeness, but he hastened to comply.