The emcee introduced her with fulsome praise that embarrassed her deeply. From LearnThat.org.
Much of the fulsome praise for Boris Yeltsin has come from outside Russia. From Wordnik.com. [Boris Yeltsin's Wrong Moves] Reference
This letter is full of fulsome flattery and expressions unworthy of an honest man. From Wordnik.com. [Itinerary through Corsica by its Rail, Carriage & Forest Roads] Reference
"Do you pay every woman you meet such fulsome and extravagant compliments, señor?". From Wordnik.com. [Bandit Love] Reference
Adjective : fulsome praise that embarrassed her deeply; fulsome décor. ,a table heaped with fulsome mounds of greasy foods. ,fulsome admiration. ,a fulsome survey of the political situation in Central America. From Dictionary.com.
Holocaust survivor and winner of many literary awards and lauded in fulsome tones. From Wordnik.com. [Second-Hand Birthday Confessions] Reference
"And even that could scarce be termed fulsome flattery," I observed. From Wordnik.com. [Nancy Stair A Novel] Reference
You were right about the 'fulsome praise' for single mothers, but you might want to look up the meaning of the word 'fulsome'. From Wordnik.com. [Bright New Dawn] Reference
Can someone with contacts please explain to Sky News (and, surprisingly, Matthew Parris) what "fulsome" actually means? john miller. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
The misspelling of "fulsome" is obvious, but the word itself invites problems. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
But that does not prevent the winning parties from making the kind of fulsome pronouncements you often hear at a wedding. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
Vain was the filleted victim, the fulsome libation!. From Wordnik.com. [Graded Poetry: Seventh Year] Reference
Now the scent rose fulsome from my sweet wrinkled tam. From Wordnik.com. [A Paper that Changes Things] Reference
His gratitude led him into fulsome flattery of Domitian. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
Jon Meacham's May 31 history of D-Day won fulsome praise from readers. From Wordnik.com. [MAIL CALL: WARTIME LEADERSHIP] Reference
Evelyn knew better than to write any fulsome compliments upon her tomb. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
It is also too near the end of the century to indulge in fulsome dedications. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Years in Hell] Reference
So far I read, and then flung the book with its fulsome verses down on the cushions. From Wordnik.com. [Orrain A Romance] Reference
During his ten days 'sojourn in the city, no praise was too fulsome, no honor too great. From Wordnik.com. [The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut] Reference
To read the fulsome stuff which is so often written about Crockett, and then to think that. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
But what I remember best about him is a telling remark in one of his many fulsome obituaries. From Wordnik.com. [Building A Better Dad] Reference
They had been decoyed by the fulsome promises of their ruler into the trap which he had laid. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
These they clasped in a warm, fulsome embrace: they were smeared from head to foot with rocoa. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873] Reference
A boy entering almost any profession or trade can be unfitted for his labors by fulsome flattering. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
We lie there, the fulsome woman and her ardent swain, laughing our heads off without making a sound. From Wordnik.com. [Minnesota Menage] Reference
As the game proceeded they became dimly aware that this fulsome show of affability was being continued. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore] Reference
The fulsome adulation bestowed upon a lad scarcely ten years of age was enough to turn his young brain. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference
And you will not fail, now that it is become fashionable, to extol with fulsome breath the greatness of every. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
He accepted the most fulsome compliments and delighted to be known as the "Grand Monarch" and the "Sun-king.". From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
"It's in good hands," laughed the doctor, as the voice of Alberdina floated to them, singing in fulsome tones. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp] Reference
Finely chiseled monuments and fulsome epitaphs are not to be compared with the benediction of grateful hearts. From Wordnik.com. [As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century] Reference
The Fish did not vote last night, which he was much impatient to discover to Charles, with one of his fulsome compliments. From Wordnik.com. [George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life] Reference
To that reception she went, attended by her father, who looked with a proud heart on the fulsome greeting his dear one received. From Wordnik.com. [Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes] Reference
Apart from this fulsome feeling, his was the full numbness of a shadow dragged about by some colossal and incomprehensible figure. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
We do not think that the pictorial world, either in taste or practice, will be Turnerized by this palpably fulsome, nonsensical praise. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
How fulsome is religious diversity if all the religions are essentially the same, and a little interfaith dialogue can talk it all away?. From Wordnik.com. [True or False: The Major Religions Are Essentially Alike] Reference
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