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Word entry · 7 letters

fulsome

Best crossword clue

"Excessively flattering"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈfʊlsəm/Part of speech adjectiveSorted eflmosuStarts with FEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech

Word origin

From Middle English fulsom, equivalent to full + -some. The meaning has evolved from an original positive connotation "abundant" to a neutral "plump" to a negative "overfed". In modern usage, it can take on any of these inflections. See usage note.

Used in a sentence

  • You will hear the advanced enfans perdus, as the French call them, and so they are indeed, namely, children of the fall, singing unclean and fulsome ballads of sin and harlotrie.
  • And by hideous contrast, a redundant orator was making a speech to another gathering not thirty steps away, in fulsome laudation of "our glorious British liberties!"
  • He addressed me in several handwritings with fulsome compliments as a Venus in furs [...]

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