fulsome

  • 21fulsome —  means odiously insincere. Fulsome praise, properly used, isn’t a lavish tribute; it is unctuous and insincere toadying …

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  • 22fulsome — adjective he paid fulsome tribute to his secretary Syn: excessive, extravagant, overdone, immoderate, inordinate, over appreciative, flattering, adulatory, fawning, unctuous, ingratiating, cloying, saccharine; enthusiastic, effusive, rapturous,… …

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  • 23Fulsome — …

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  • 24fulsome — Synonyms and related words: Fescennine, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Rabelaisian, abhorrent, abject, abominable, adulatory, affected, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, bad smelling, barfy, base, bawdy, beastly, bedizened, beggarly, below contempt,… …

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  • 25fulsome — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. obnoxious, foul, noisome; unctuous, obsequious, fawning; cloying, excessive; tasteless, offensive. See servility, vulgarity. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. disgusting, offensive, excessive, insincere;… …

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  • 26fulsome — ful|some [ fulsəm ] adjective FORMAL praising or thanking someone a lot, especially in a way that does not seem sincere ╾ ful|some|ly adverb …

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  • 27fulsome — ful·some || fÊŠlsÉ™m adj. overly plentiful, excessive; crude, insulting to good taste, offensive; disgusting, repulsive …

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  • 28fulsome — a. 1. Gross, excessive, offensively extravagant, offensive, nauseous. 2. Nauseous, nauseating, offensive, disgusting, repulsive. 3. Ribald, coarse, gross, tending to obscenity, questionable …

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  • 29fulsome — adj 1. excessive, extravagant, immoderate, inordinate, overdone; adulatory, idolatrous, hero worshiping, overappreciative, excessive in one s praise. 2. disgusting, sickening, nauseating, nauseous, noxious, foul, vile; repulsive, repellent,… …

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  • 30fulsome — ful·some …

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