Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Fully; abundantly.
- In a fulsome manner; rankly; grossly; nauseously; obscenely.
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- adverb In a
fulsome manner
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- adverb in an unctuous manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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Paul Levy, managing partner at the private equity firm JLL Partners, told Bloomberg Television this morning:Newt Gingrich spoke at my annual meeting two years ago, we paid him $40,000, and this gentleman praised private equity more fulsomely than I could ever do it.
South Carolina primary: Mitt Romney's rivals ask taxing questions 2012
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But nobody praised private equity, risk taking, capital more fulsomely than Newt Gingrich.
South Carolina primary: Mitt Romney's rivals ask taxing questions 2012
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He also fulsomely credited Reagan with transforming the GOP into a "party of ideas."
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Why President Obama Continually Hails President Reagan Earl Ofari Hutchinson 2011
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In 1953, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature "for his mastery of historical and biographical description" and praised, somewhat fulsomely, as a writer endowed with the "gift of Cicero's pen."
The Tedium Is the Message Michael Moynihan 2011
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He also fulsomely credited Reagan with transforming the GOP into a "party of ideas."
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Why President Obama Continually Hails President Reagan Earl Ofari Hutchinson 2011
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And sons and daughters of his flesh and of the law needs must go with him fulsomely eating out of the gnarled old hand that had half a million to disburse.
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Because Toder who, while acting as her attorney, fulsomely praised RIAA lawyer Richard Gabriel, who was doing his best to see her pilloried, has pulled out.
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Toder, while acting for Jammie, also fulsomely praised RIAA lawyer Richard Gabriel, who was doing his best to see her pilloried.
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Toder acted for Jamie in the first case, but withdrew, and in the story of his departure, he, “fulsomely praised RIAA lawyer Richard Gabriel, who was doing his best to see her pilloried, has pulled out,” we said, going on:
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They went from attacking the Social Security as an ogre to praising it fulsomely -- and then attacking it.
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