6. Offensive to normal tastes or sensibilities; exciting aversion or repugnance; disgusting, repulsive, odious. ? Obs. exc. as in sense 7.
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fulsome, a
6.
Offensive to normal tastes or sensibilities; exciting aversion or
repugnance; disgusting, repulsive, odious. ? Obs. exc. as in
sense 7.
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