Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery.

Fulsome means excessive and insincere. NEVER use it to mean plentiful. The critic gave fulsome praise to the sculpture, which angered the artist. RETURN TO LIST

unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep"

Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled.

Lustful; wanton; obscene; also, tending to obscenity.

fat. (The Merchant of Venice)