fulsome
adjective
offensive to good taste, especially as being excessive; overdone or gross.
fulsomeness
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a word derived from
fulsome.
Example Sentences
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Aside from the fulsomeness of the introductory language, there does not seem to be much opportunity for comedy here.
From Time Magazine Archive
My awareness of the obvious fulsomeness in the old woman's praise in no way detracted from my feeling of having done a good deed.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 by Work Projects Administration
He was savouring to its utmost fulsomeness the supremest joy which animal man can ever know—the joy of looking on a fallen enemy.
From El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
The Marchioness welcomed him cordially, later on, and Mr. Dane Montague and Mr. Hartwell seemed very harmless in their ill-chosen country clothes, and ingratiating almost to the point of fulsomeness.
From Jacob's Ladder by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
When the Imperial government was established, the old regicide made himself conspicuous even among the crowd of flatterers by the peculiar fulsomeness of his adulation.
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
