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The Hound of the Baskervilles vocabulary
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fulsome
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Definition:repulsively overdone
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Mr. Carter had got possession of both hands and was murmuring fulsome flatteries when the sound of somebody pausing at the open door caused them to be hastily withdrawn. "Evening, Mr. Evans," said a young man, putting his head in. "Why, halloa! Bert! Well, of all the——"
W. W. Jacobs. Sailor's Knots
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a young female Yahoo, standing behind a bank, saw the whole proceeding, and inflamed by desire, as the nag and I conjectured, came running with all speed, and leaped into the water, within five yards of the place where I bathed. [...] She embraced me after a most fulsome manner.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.
Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
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It apparently both sanctions and condemns nearly every species of crime to which it refers, and pours fulsome laudations upon the heads of some of the most bloody-minded and licentious men,—such as David, Solomon, &c.,—and holds them up as examples of true practical morality.
Kersey and Lydia Graves. The Bible of Bibles (1879)
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Certainly I knew the naïve or assumed credulity of those who care for someone or even who are simply not invited by him, and impute to that person a wish he has never expressed in spite of fulsome importunities.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 7]
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