How to use "fulsome" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "fulsome" in popular movie and book plots

  • Siegel is the ace Sightseeing Officer among the Correspondent's Aides, known for his fulsome if tongue-in-cheek treatment of VIPs.  - Don't Go Near the Water (novel)

Example sentences for "fulsome" in interesting articles

  • I preferred white phosphorus, which exploded with a fulsome elegance, wreathing its target in intense and billowing white smoke, throwing out glowing red comets trailing brilliant white plumes I loved it more--not less --because of its function: to destroy, to kill.  - Why Men Love War (1984)
  • Bush administration built after the September 11, 2001, attacks. "We owe it to the American people to have a fulsome debate in the open about the extent of these programs," Senator Mark Udall, a Colorado Democrat a long-time critic of the surveillance programs, said on NBC's "Meet the Press." Describing the surveillance overseen by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Udall said, "I just don't think this is an American approach to a world in which we have great threats.  - Obama does not feel Americans' privacy violated
  • As the years passed and fulsome praise arrived, Shannon grew enigmatic and withdrawn.  - Celebrating Claude Shannon

Meaning of "fulsome" in English

  • unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech
    Examples
    - gave him a fulsome introduction
    - an oily sycophantic press agent
    - oleaginous hypocrisy
    - smarmy self-importance
    - the unctuous Uriah Heep
    - soapy compliments

Meaning of "fulsome" in Hindi

  • बहुत
  • अति
  • घृणित

Synonyms of "fulsome"

  • oily
  • smarmy
  • oleaginous
  • soapy
  • unctuous
  • buttery

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