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adjective

Fulsome adj.

Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled. (Obs.) "His lean, pale, hoar, and withered corpse grew fulsome, fair, and fresh."

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."

Lustful; wanton; obscene; also, tending to obscenity. (Obs.) "Fulsome ewes."

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"Fulsome" Quotes from Famous Books

... ways—he airs the feeble remnants of his Latin grammar and his stock quotations. He will curse you if you refuse him drink, and he will describe you as an impostor or a cad; while, if you are weak enough to gratify his taste for spirits, he will glower at you over his glass, and sicken you with fulsome flattery or clumsy attempts at festive wit. Enough of this ugly creature, whose baseness insults the light of God's day! We know how he will end; we know how he has been a fraud throughout his evil life, and we ...

— The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions - Joints In Our Social Armour • James Runciman

... was represented by Madeleine Beejart, even then good-looking, though she was more than forty years old. The verses are taken from the eighth volume of the "Select Comedies of M. de Moliere in French and English, London, 1732," and as fulsome as they well can be. The English translation, which is not mine, fairly represents the official ...

— The Bores • Moliere

... and his friend Cesare Gonzaga, of the great Mantuan family, recited the former's "Tirsi," dialogues in verse. The two interpreters wore pastoral costumes. The dialogue was couched in the customary pastoral phrase, but it was made plain that fulsome flattery of living personages was intended.[32] The musical numbers of which we can be certain were one solo, sung by Iola, a chorus of shepherds ...

— Some Forerunners of Italian Opera • William James Henderson

... said, folding her in his arms, "I don't think you realize how much you are to me. In this modern world, what with self-consciousness, and shyness and contemporary distaste for fulsome expression, it is difficult to tell adequately those we love how we feel toward them. You are my darling and my inspiration. The sun rises and sets with you, and unless you were happy, I could never be. Each man in this puzzling ...

— Unleavened Bread • Robert Grant

... a star!" was his greeting; and in a fulsome, familiar tone he went on—"You are like the sun at noon, my beauty, and burn my ...

— The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood • Arthur Griffiths

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