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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 fulsomely
 (ad.)過度地;過分地

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 fulsomely
      adv : in an unctuous manner [syn: unctuously, smarmily]