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earliest definitions of fulsome seem to include both the copious and the cloying connotations.
As illustrated by the Guest Speaker who was introduced with praise so copious as to be embarrassing. She smiled shyly and said she hardly deserved such fullsome praise ... thereby acknowledging the MC's efforts while being appropriately modest about her copious collegial credits
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