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fulsome

fulsome • \FULL-sum\  • adjective
Fulsome describes someone or something that is generous in amount, extent, or spirit.

// They were fulsome in their praise of her efforts to raise money for the new wing of the children’s hospital.

// A day after offering a weak non-apology for instigating a bases-clearing brawl, the pitcher expressed more fulsome regrets at a press conference, taking full responsibility.

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Examples:
“... her archive, now kept at Yale University, forms the basis of this lusty, vibrant and fittingly multi-textured bio-doc that pays fulsome tribute to [Barbara] Hammer’s shapeshifting, once undervalued but now increasingly revered talent.” — Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Sept. 2026

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