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Ful·some a.
1. Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled. [Obs.]
His lean, pale, hoar, and withered corpse grew fulsome, fair, and fresh. --Golding.
2. Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery.
And lest the fulsome artifice should fail
Themselves will hide its coarseness with a veil. --Cowper.
3. Lustful; wanton; obscene; also, tending to obscenity. [Obs.] “Fulsome ewes.”
-- Ful*some*ly, adv. -- Ful*some*ness, n.
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fulsomely
adv : in an unctuous manner [syn: unctuously, smarmily]