fulsome

fulsome
    adj 1: 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"; "soapy compliments" [syn:
           {buttery}, {fulsome}, {oily}, {oleaginous}, {smarmy},
           {soapy}, {unctuous}]
    

Fulsome \Ful"some\, a. [Full, a. + -some.]
   1. Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled. [Obs.]
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            His lean, pale, hoar, and withered corpse grew
            fulsome, fair, and fresh.             --Golding.
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   2. Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or
      grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from
      excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery.
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            And lest the fulsome artifice should fail
            Themselves will hide its coarseness with a veil.
                                                  --Cowper.
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   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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299 Moby Thesaurus words for "fulsome":
      Fescennine, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Rabelaisian, abhorrent,
      abject, abominable, adulatory, affected, arrant, atrocious, awful,
      bad, bad-smelling, barfy, base, bawdy, beastly, bedizened,
      beggarly, below contempt, beneath contempt, big-sounding,
      blameworthy, bland, blandishing, blarneying, blue, bombastic,
      brackish, brutal, buttery, cajoling, canting, cheesy, cloying,
      complimentary, contemptible, convoluted, courtierly, courtly,
      crude, crummy, debased, declamatory, degraded, deplorable,
      depraved, despicable, detestable, dire, dirty, disarming,
      disgusting, dreadful, egregious, elevated, enormous, euphuistic,
      excessive, execrable, extravagant, exuberant, fair-spoken, fawning,
      fecal, fetid, filthy, fine-spoken, flagrant, flamboyant, flaming,
      flashy, flattering, flaunting, forbidding, foul, foul-mouthed,
      foul-spoken, foul-tongued, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, funky, fusty,
      gamy, garish, gaudy, glib, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant,
      grave, graveolent, grievous, gross, gushing, hateful, heinous,
      hero-worshiping, high, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying,
      high-sounding, highfalutin, holier-than-thou, honey-mouthed,
      honey-tongued, honeyed, horrible, horrid, hypocritical, icky,
      idolatrous, ignoble, ill-smelling, impure, infamous, ingratiating,
      inkhorn, insincere, insinuating, ithyphallic, labyrinthine,
      lamentable, lavish, lewd, lexiphanic, lionizing, little, loathsome,
      lofty, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, lurid, maggoty, magniloquent,
      malodorous, mangy, mawkish, mealy-mouthed, mealymouthed, mean,
      measly, mephitic, meretricious, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed,
      mildewy, miserable, moldy, monstrous, musty, nasty, nauseant,
      nauseating, nauseous, nefarious, nidorous, noisome, notorious,
      noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, obsequious, odious,
      odorous, offensive, oily, oily-tongued, oleaginous, olid, orotund,
      ostentatious, outrageous, overappreciative, overdone,
      overelaborate, overinvolved, overpraising, overripe, overwrought,
      paltry, pecksniffian, pedantic, petty, pharisaical, pitiable,
      pitiful, poisonous, poky, pompous, poor, pornographic, pretentious,
      profuse, putrid, rancid, rank, raunchy, reasty, reasy, rebarbative,
      reechy, reeking, reeky, regrettable, repellent, reprehensible,
      reptilian, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rhetorical, ribald,
      rotten, sad, salacious, sanctimonious, satiating, sating, scabby,
      scandalous, schlock, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurrile,
      scurrilous, scurvy, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious,
      shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, showy, sickening, slick, slimy,
      slobbery, small, smarmy, smellful, smelling, smelly, smoking-room,
      smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, smug, smutty, soapy,
      soft-soaping, soft-spoken, sonorous, sordid, spoiled, squalid,
      stenchy, stilted, stinking, strong, stuffy, suave, suave-spoken,
      sulfurous, sultry, sycophantic, tall, terrible, too bad, tortuous,
      uncensorious, unchaste, unclean, uncritical, uncriticizing,
      unctuous, unmentionable, unprintable, unrepeatable, unreproachful,
      vile, villainous, vomity, weevily, wheedling, woeful, worst,
      worthless, wretched, yucky