Treacly vs Fulsome - What's the difference?
treacly | fulsome |
(of a liquid) thick and sticky
consisting of treacle, or cloying sentimental speech
Offensive to good taste, tactless, overzealous, excessive.
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* 1820 , , The Monastery , ch. 35:
Excessively flattering (connoting insincerity).
* 1889 , , A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court , ch. 34:
* 1922 , , Ulysses , Episode 15—Circe:
Abundant, copious.
Fully developed, mature.
As adjectives the difference between treacly and fulsome
is that treacly is thick and sticky while fulsome is offensive to good taste, tactless, overzealous, excessive.treacly
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Adjective
(er)fulsome
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Adjective
(en adjective)- I immediately stripped myself stark naked, and went down softly into the stream. It happened that a young female YAHOO, standing behind a bank, saw the whole proceeding, and inflamed by desire . . . embraced me after a most fulsome manner.
- You will hear the advanced enfans perdus , as the French call them, and so they are indeed, namely, children of the fall, singing unclean and fulsome ballads of sin and harlotrie.
- And by hideous contrast, a redundant orator was making a speech to another gathering not thirty steps away, in fulsome laudation of "our glorious British liberties!"
- Mrs. Bellingham: He addressed me in several handwritings with fulsome compliments as a Venus in furs.
- The fulsome thanks of the war-torn nation lifted our weary spirits.
- Her fulsome timbre resonated throughout the hall.