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Fulsome

Fulsome Meaning & Definition
Fulsome Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Fulsome?

[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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Fulsome: buttery | insincere | oily | oleaginous | smarmy | unctuous

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Fulsome In Webster's Dictionary

\Ful"some\, a. [Full, a. + -some.] 1. Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled. [Obs.] His lean, pale, hoar, and withered corpse grew fulsome, fair, and fresh. --Golding. 2. 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. 3. Lustful; wanton; obscene; also, tending to obscenity. [Obs.] ``Fulsome ewes.'' --Shak. -- {Ful"some*ly}, adv. -- {Ful"some*ness}, n. --Dryden.

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