(n.) One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens.
(n.) A flat-faced fulling hammer.
(n.) A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
(v. t.) To treat with praise or blandishments; to gratify or attempt to gratify the self-love or vanity of, esp. by artful and interested commendation or attentions; to blandish; to cajole; to wheedle.
(v. t.) To raise hopes in; to encourage or favorable, but sometimes unfounded or deceitful, representations.
(v. t.) To portray too favorably; to give a too favorable idea of; as, his portrait flatters him.
(v. i.) To use flattery or insincere praise.
Example Sentences:
(1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(2) With profound blockade, the slope of the edrophonium dose-response relationship was significantly flatter (P less than 0.05) than that of neostigmine.
(3) The groups showed significantly different iEMG fatigue slopes, with the control group showing declining iEMG by repetition, while the CLBP group showed flatter, slightly increasing iEMG.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Farage ’flattered’ by Trump’s call for him to be US ambassador In another shot at Obama, referring to remarks by the US president before the Brexit vote about the possible trade consequences of Britain leaving Europe, Farage said: “No longer do we have a president who says that we’re at the back of the line.” Everything you need to know about Trump and the Indiana Carrier factory Read more He also said Hillary Clinton, Trump’s opponent, had “wanted the European Union to be a prototype for a bigger model across the whole world”.
(5) "It may not be nice, kind or flattering, but to put it as unlawful would be startling," White said.
(6) Carbamazepine has a flatter concentration-time profile than valproic acid.
(7) Flattered, entreated, begged by the rest of the committee, he did not yield: "Recommendations are recommendations, there it is"; and "I honestly believe it's all there"; "I promise you I have done my very best"; "if I hadn't thought my recommendations were fit for purpose, I would not have made them"; "with all due respect, I could not have done any more than I did".
(8) Perhaps the most flattering epitaph for Ronnie Biggs, who has died aged 84, was written for him many years ago by the unlikely figure of the former commissioner of the Metropolitan police Sir Robert Mark .
(9) "So that was very flattering and a little surprising," she says.
(10) When spectrin was rebound to the erythrocyte membrane, a decay in the anisotropy was still present but was markedly less sensitive to solution viscosity and flatter at longer times.
(11) Things are different now: wonks observe that we’ve got lucky with the chairs – Margaret Hodge on the public accounts committee (PAC), Rory Stewart on defence, Sarah Wollaston on health – but committee work is flattered mainly by comparison with everything else.
(12) We praise and flatter each other and automatically learn the details of each other's lives.
(14) Early flattering comparisons were made with the Strokes and Sonic Youth.
(15) Their pay structure is flatter and their sense of responsibility to the community stronger.
(16) I will propose a new school funding model from the commonwealth which will be flatter, simpler, fairer to all the states and territories and equitable between students,” he said.
(17) The instantaneous I-V curve was linear while in the steady state the curve became flatter at low negative membrane potentials and steeper at high negative membrane potentials.
(18) To describe this course of action as "clutching at straws" is to flatter it.
(19) She should be confronting her party's prejudices, not flattering them.
(20) The steeper the curve of Spee, the more irregular the cusp height and angulations are with steeper anterior cusps and flatter posterior cusps.
Fulsome
Definition:
(a.) Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled.
(a.) Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery.
(a.) Lustful; wanton; obscene; also, tending to obscenity.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the first comments to come out of Damascus since the accord to disarm Syria of its chemical weapons, brokered by Russia and the US, was announced, Ali Haidar, paid fulsome tribute to its longstanding ally, praising "the achievement of the Russian diplomacy and the Russian leadership".
(2) It is the latest sorry chapter in what has been a bad year for London's Square Mile, which is still digesting the record fine meted out to Barclays for attempting to rig Libor and the fulsome apology from HSBC, which admitted helping Mexican drug barons launder money.
(3) The Treasury fulsomely endorsed the Britannia-Co-op merger, stating in October 2012: "The success of the merger resulted in a strongly capitalised mutual business with the scale to offer its customers and members a full range of financial services products and services that are ethical, mutual and co-operative."
(4) But the attitude has changed in the last decade, partly due to a cultural shift that can be seen throughout public life in Britain in the wake of any blameworthy disaster: fulsome apology and promise of "lessons learned".
(5) The Israeli cabinet observed a minute's silence at the start of its regular weekly meeting on Sunday, before Netanyahu delivered a tribute, notable for its fulsome praise of Sharon's military career but cooler on his political record.
(6) They have full international players who know how to play these occasions.” As for the long-term at Everton, Martínez has given fulsome support to the proposed stadium relocation to Walton Hall Park, an anticipated scheme that was confirmed this week but remains at an embryonic stage in terms of planning and finance.
(7) Agency: BBH (Singapore) Director: Jones+Tino Gatorade: 'Derek Jeter' (starts at 04:51) - US Ad Break has already featured one commercial marking Derek Jeter's retirement this year and it's a measure of his impact on baseball that this second epic also plays fulsome tribute to the star.
(8) Their reach for notoriety predicated on that fulsome mediocrity of talent detailed above has become frozen in their faces.
(9) The apology and U-turn from Suárez duly followed via social media on Monday, six days after the incident, and club employees were fulsome in their praise of the striker’s actions on Tuesday.
(10) Liverpool’s second string proves uncomfortable for Christian Benteke Read more The Liverpool manager was fulsome in his praise of the club’s young players, with the midfielders Kevin Stewart and Cameron Brannagan also impressing, but insisted patience was required before they could be considered for the Premier League.
(11) The busyness of everyone's work worlds, differing organisational priorities, and, sometimes, a less than fulsome appreciation of each other's roles, can impede sharing knowledge – and hunches – about what may be happening in a family.
(12) Branson said: "I'm pleased we didn't have to go to court and that the minister has been so fulsome in his apologies, and pleased that he's going to do a complete overhaul."
(13) I suspect he'll continue to stand to Cruz's side for awhile longer, collecting speaking engagements and offering Cruz fulsome praise until Cruz's moment ends.
(14) Labour politicians are among those expressing fulsome praise for a fierce maiden speech by the SNP’s Mhairi Black , the UK’s youngest MP, which was one of the top trending topics on social media on Tuesday.
(15) I just don’t think it’s legally sustainable for the FCC to block deals on a case-by-case basis.” Sohn said the FCC was considering 706 because the Verizon decision “gave us a roadmap, and the chairman believes it can be an effective path forward.” But she confirmed the public backlash had led the FCC to look more closely at all its options: “Draft proposal reflects public input several ways, most noticeably more fulsome discussion of Title II,” she wrote.
(16) In 1964 he explained, as fulsomely as he ever would, what it was he was trying to do: "I am concerned with a thing's not being what it was, with its becoming something other than what it is, with any moment in which one identifies a thing precisely and with the slipping away of that moment."
(17) As backings go, this was not exactly fulsome, especially when issued by a minion .
(18) We are looking at the information that has been presented to us, we’ll look at it carefully and have a fulsome discussion amongst our colleagues,” Marc Garneau told reporters.
(19) Magnetic Man's material isn't strong enough to support the fulsome vocal treatment they're given, despite their contention that "there's some risky tracks on the album".
(20) The manager, though, saved his most fulsome praise for Keane.