Unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech.
1 But Russia's embrace of Greece has so far been less than fulsome .
2 Reviewers, impressed by the weight of research and writing, have been fulsome .
3 North, back on the left wing, earned fulsome praise from Jim Mallinder.
4 The fulsome flatterer of former times has degenerated into a chronic fault-finder.
5 Mrs Moffatt was talking about her, gushing over her, in fulsome phrases.
6 I made no fulsome protestations, and did not once allude to suicide.
7 Gabinius followed him into his writing-room, and there said with fulsome smoothness:
8 He did not embarrass me with fulsome praise of my strategic genius.
9 She had not dared express her full appreciation, lest she seem fulsome .
10 So a fulsome apology can be interpreted as a totally insincere one!
11 Let us strike tomorrow with the full and fulsome courage of our convictions.
12 Only a power-hungry zealot could accept the fulsome ritual as a tolerable exchange.
13 He immediately became almost fulsome in his effort to detain me.
14 To praise him directly might seem sycophantish and fulsome to the Prince himself.
15 None of the fulsome praise, the superlative, necessary definition given to lesser performers.
16 He was fantastic. Everton manager Roberto Martinez was also fulsome in his praise.
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