fulsome

• Vincent's toasts were fulsome, Drax's condescending. —  FSF,September2007
• Why is she not to have the benefit of the plain straightforward interpretation which would be allowed to any other human being; namely, that she approved of such fine talk as long as it was proved to be sincere by fine deeds: but that when these were wanting, the fine talk became hollow, fulsome, a fresh cause of anger and disgust? —  Sir Walter Raleigh and his Times
• In the wild songs of the slaves he read, beneath their senseless jargon or their fulsome praise of “old master,” the often unconscious note of grief and despair. —  Frederick Douglass
• This dissipated, fulsome, painted, patch-work style may succeed in the levity and languor of the boudoir , or might have been adapted to the Pavilions of royalty, but it is not the style of Parnassus, nor a passport to Immortality. —  The Spirit of the Age
• What if you are an activist who is terrified and depressed at the prospect of a majority government that would allow Stephen Harper to carry out a fulsome Conservative agenda? —  Tyee - Home

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