Hillary Clinton

I didn't get many welcoming posts when I started out on DU back in 2004 under the name needle driver, nor when I came back in 2007 as needledriver.

You're right - I almost have a point. If you drill down far enough in the dictionary definitions you eventually get to the ones where fulsome does not have a negative connotation, but still, fulsome is one of those funny words that doesn't mean what it sounds like it should mean, like homely or inflammable.

Fulsome praise is no praise at all, and don't think you can't set something on fire because it is inflammable, and whatever you do - don't tell someone you think their house is homely!

Politico article writer Annie Karni's line about "Clinton’s fulsome embrace of her rival" actually means the exact opposite of what she intended it to mean.