Crossword-Solution: FULSOME
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fulsome | a. | Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled. |
| Fulsome | a. | Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery. |
| Fulsome | a. | Lustful; wanton; obscene; also, tending to obscenity. |
We have 56 clues for the answer “FULSOME”
| Clue | Answers |
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| sating | 1 answer |
| satiating | 1 answer |
| Overdone, as flattery | 1 answer |
| Offensive to good taste. | 1 answer |
| Offensive from excess of praise. | 1 answer |
| Pecksniffian. | 3 answers |
| pharisaical | 3 answers |
| Excessively flattering | 3 answers |
| oleaginous | 4 answers |
| Canting | 4 answers |
| frowsty | 6 answers |
| soapy | 8 answers |
| wheedling | 8 answers |
| COMPLIMENTARY OR FLATTERING TO AN EXCESSIVE DEGREE | 11 answers |
| Over the top | 12 answers |
| unendurable | 12 answers |
| Fruity | 13 answers |
| ingratiating | 14 answers |
| buttery | 16 answers |
| Magniloquent | 19 answers |
| Unbearable | 23 answers |
| Obsequious | 23 answers |
| Unctuous | 23 answers |
| adulatory | 25 answers |
| fusty | 27 answers |
| Servile | 27 answers |
| flattering | 28 answers |
| unpleasing | 30 answers |
| unpalatable | 32 answers |
| tongue in cheek | 41 answers |
| Oily | 44 answers |
| Plump | 48 answers |
| nauseating | 49 answers |
| cloying | 52 answers |
| cringing | 52 answers |
| unsavoury | 52 answers |
| Overdone | 53 answers |
| grovelling | 53 answers |
| fetid | 55 answers |
| bland | 56 answers |
| Copious | 57 answers |
| Glib | 57 answers |
| unwelcome | 58 answers |
| uninviting | 58 answers |
| profuse | 59 answers |
| Slick | 60 answers |
| Insincere | 61 answers |
| unattractive | 61 answers |
| Excessive | 68 answers |
| Effusive | 71 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
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Sentences with FULSOME (5)
Compliment may be a sincere expression of due respect and esteem, or it may be unmeaning; flattery is apt to become gross; adulation is always servile, and usually fulsome.
The General was a gentleman, and yet had the flexible adaptability of a retainer; he had been trained in discipline, and hence knew how to defer without becoming fulsome or familiar; he was a man of the world and knew an unlimited number of racy stories, and even if he repeated some of them unduly, they were better than no stories at all.
That's pickin' 'em if you like.” They have a wet, and pour fulsome adulation on the Oracle when he collects their money.
AMANS VIATOR ’Tis a first shot concocted this morning in my berth: I had always before been trying it in English, which insisted on being either insignificant or fulsome: I cannot think of a better word than _comes_, there being not the shadow of a Latin book on board; yet sure there is some other.
And I could ill stomach the fulsome flattery with which the lady of the evening indulges her show-monsters on such occasions, as she crams her parrots with sugar-plums, in order to make them talk before company.
Quotes with FULSOME (3)
I chose to remain single because I couldn't commit to one person. But it isn't easy. There are plenty of times when I wonder if I made a huge mistake with some of the men I've loved and let go. Maybe I would have enjoyed love, after the dizzying rapture faded, and was replaced with something more fulsome? Truer, deeper? But I never gave it a chance. And that might have been a huge mistake...
It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.
Lark’s Song That child who from Diana’s thought is born A huntress swift, who doth the world adorn With strength and passion worthy of the Green May wax, and one day rise to be a queen. That child who in the eye of Phoebus grows Of visage fair, that none would dare oppose May in her hand hold light and glory too, And to the Light hold sternly staunch and true. That child who with the face of Venus smiles, Will bear a heart of mischief and of wiles, And may in time love’s fait…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1947–2017).