(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.
Unctuous
Definition:
(a.) Of the nature or quality of an unguent or ointment; fatty; oily; greasy.
(a.) Having a smooth, greasy feel, as certain minerals.
(a.) Bland; suave; also, tender; fervid; as, an unctuous speech; sometimes, insincerely suave or fervid.
Example Sentences:
(1) Early opportunities to indulge his skill for making unctuousness compelling came in the roles of a school snitch in the Al Pacino vehicle Scent of a Woman (1992), for which Hoffman auditioned five times.
(2) Trump, when asked last December which president he most admires, did not pay the usual unctuous tribute to Lincoln, Kennedy or Reagan, but said that his role model was James Marshall.
(3) Already irritated with Speaker John Bercow for being long-winded, unctuous and perceptibly anti-Conservative in the House of Commons, the idea that his Labour-supporting wife would go on the programme's Channel 5 reincarnation had been a red rag to the proverbial.
(4) Disease, birth-defects and chronic illnesses are all part and parcel of an unregulated industry that operates outside the range of global media but with the full complicity of the Nigerian government that wants nothing whatsoever to upset its unctuous cash-cow.
(5) That your jaw is wired open, and you're being spoonfed thick, unctuous vomit from a large tureen forged from glimmering, gilded rubbish.
(6) These things are driven by rolling, unctuous television telling people a great event is unfolding, focusing on the few hysterics in tears and not the many who come to feel their pain.
(7) Just as he had (arguably) revolutionised TV satire, making it threatening to, rather than complicit with, the establishment, here he was changing the nature of the TV interview: unctuous deference was out; aggression and scepticism were in.
(8) But there's no doubt who left amid the biggest slurp of unctuous adulation.
(9) Listening to the voluptuous precision with which he articulated his dream of feasting "on the swelling, unctuous paps of a fat, pregnant sow", it was good to be reminded of the matchless clarity of the Richardson voice which remains one of the great treasures of my theatre-going lifetime.
(10) Despite the ongoing threat to national sanity posed by The X Factor, such pop is no longer the embarrassing province of the unctuous boyband, or pitched strictly at the tweenage market.
(11) This dish is the opposite of all those things: sinfully rich, full of butter, served with unctuous roasting juices on top.
(12) So, the trick is either to catch the meat before the muscle cells burst, or leave it in the oven for ages until everything reaches an unctuous softness.
(13) History’s first overtly gay Disney character, it turns out, is LeFou, unctuous manservant to preening, hyper-macho villain Gaston – an underling who, in Condon’s words, “on one day wants to be Gaston and on another day wants to kiss Gaston”.
(14) This is said often, even in this unctuous week - and yet still it does not permeate.
(15) Pointlessly suffixed to a retweet to indicate earnest accord, "<THIS" is really nothing but an unctuous tagnut.
(16) The pintxos are chalked up on a board and cooked to order: an unctuous risotto of mushrooms and idiazabal (a Basque cheese), garlic soup with pig's ear, braised veal cheeks in wine or a bacalao (salt cod) taco.
(17) But the haphazard canals criss-crossing it were still full of thick, unctuous water with a rainbow film on top, and white paint on the birch tree trunks could not cover the black trace of oil, Greenpeace says.
(18) We may be sure that the MP for Clacton has never trimmed his views for political advantage; nor has he begun a question with the unctuous phrase “May I congratulate my right honourable friend…” I know from experience that the role of an independent MP comes with its disadvantages.
(19) The always-packed tapas bar Casa Revuelta dishes up the city’s pre-eminent pinchos de bacalao – piping-hot, fist-size nuggets of flaky, unctuous cod (€2.80).
(20) Despite unctuous protests about good taste, there is an audience for this fight, a considerably bigger one than there had been before they came to blows in front of the cameras and some distance from a referee.