fulsome

How To Use fulsome In A Sentence

• Unless the context is made very clear, the reader or hearer cannot be sure whether such an expression as ‘fulsome praise’ is meant in the sense ‘generous in amount, extent’ or in the sense Perry suggests.
• But there can seldom have been more fulsome affair than the $275 a head extravaganza last week to celebrate John Howard's 30 years in parliament.
• Even so, Keegan has been effusive and fulsome in his praise of Pearce's contribution both on and off the field.
• And in Congress politics, fulsome flattery and obsequious loyalty play a vital role.
• While I did not begrudge the President his due recognition, this was a trifle fulsome.
• The international adjudicating panel was impressed by students and external partners who were as one in their fulsome praise of the Institute.
• gave him a fulsome introduction
• Interested and sympathetic - to the police, I mean - without being uncritically fulsome, in that way Tory politicians have. POLITICAL SUICIDE
• I was feeling exhausted, what with the 22 miler, the Rowing Crew Mardi Gras and the fulsome lunch that was now rattling in my stomach and telling my brain to let me lie down in the aisle somewhere near the dairy produce and have a good snooze.
• Holocaust survivor and winner of many literary awards and lauded in fulsome tones 40 entries from September 2007