(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.
Obsequious
Definition:
(a.) Promptly obedient, or submissive, to the will of another; compliant; yielding to the desires of another; devoted.
(a.) Servilely or meanly attentive; compliant to excess; cringing; fawning; as, obsequious flatterer, parasite.
(a.) Of or pertaining to obsequies; funereal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Labour too had "sort of fallen to their knees obsequiously towards very powerful vested interests in the media", he said.
(2) Families of China's 'disappeared' say country is a place of fear and panic Read more “It is so obsequious, it is just nauseating,” said Howie.
(3) This week I saw a hilarious clip of Trump beckoning Farage out of a crowd – a bit like Courteney Cox in the Dancing in the Dark video – and Farage telling him obsequiously he was “handing over the mantle”.
(4) In a piece for Salon , Greenwald said the blog’s favorable – “obsequious” was the word he used – coverage of justices was a way for Goldstein to curry favor for when he would argue before the court.
(5) They're still queuing up to take a bow, albeit less obsequiously than before.
(6) After King Phil repaid Labour for its obsequiousness by publicly backing the Tories in 2010, the new PM asked him to review government spending and procurement.
(7) Not for him the tiny calibrations of the text or the obsequious notes to his masters.
(8) There are people who have been absolute shits for the last 20 years who have suddenly become embarrassingly friendly and obsequious.
(9) And in the middle of it were the two Matthews, obsequiously yucking it up like a grotesque Fluck and Law parody of the coddled one-percent.
(10) The minister’s article reads like an obsequious sales pitch, but in that sense it is fairly consistent with the UK government’s approach to the Gulf states.
(11) Observing this process through the prism of private equity, there is a certain obsequiousness on behalf of politicians behind closed doors.
(12) First, nobly casting aside obsequious talk of titles following his recent appointment as president of the Queen's Bench Division, Leveson willingly confirmed that he was his old self: "I was always Brian Leveson."
(13) For a decade Britain has been obsequious towards China .
(14) Thus the same administration that resisted judicial disclosure pursuant to transparency laws leaked bits and pieces about the mission (always favorable to the president) to their favorite media message-carriers ; secretly met with and shoveled information to big Hollywood filmmakers planning a pre-election release of a film about the Bin Laden raid (now pushed back until December in the wake of the ensuing controversy, though the already-released film trailer – see below – will soon be inundating the nation); and then sat down with one of America's most obsequious, military-revering news anchors for an hour-long prime-time special that spoke of the raid with predictable awe but asked none of the hard questions about these lingering issues.
(15) Obsequiousness tends not to make good pictures of politicians – unless you happen to be Thomas Gainsborough or George Romney – and in a sense photographers are that unusual thing for them, a person just getting on with doing their job just as they might with anybody else.
(16) The all-too-familiar axis that has enabled massive civil liberties assaults by the Obama administration - blindly partisan progressive media outlets and particularly obsequious self-styled neutral journalists - instantly sprung into action here and wasted no time jumping to the defense of the US government.
(17) Most people, let alone journalists, would be far too embarrassed to admit they harbor such subservient, obsequious sentiments.
(18) That same article quoted the supremely obsequious former Obama adviser Harold Koh as hailing torture advocate and serial deceiver John Brennan as "a person of genuine moral rectitude" who ensures that the "kill list" is accompanied by moral struggle: "It's as though you had a priest with extremely strong moral values who was suddenly charged with leading a war," Koh said.
(19) Here's the White House list of who's meeting with the president: • Ajay Banga, MasterCard • Steve Bennett, Symantec • Wes Bush, Northrop Grumman • Marillyn Hewson, Lockheed Martin • Renee James, Intel • Brian Moynihan, Bank of America • Joe Rigby, Pepco Holdings • Charlie Scharf, Visa 3.31pm GMT With exceptions , congressional interrogation of intelligence officials in hearings since the Snowden revelations in June has been obsequious conspiratorial deeply collegial .
(20) Tyranny becomes docile and subservient, and a soft totalitarianism prevails, as obsequious as a wine waiter.