1. Excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm
   - unction, smarm 
2. Smug self-serving earnestness
   - oiliness, oleaginousness, smarminess, unctuousness, unction

Derived forms: fulsomenesses

See also: fulsome

Type of: compliment, hypocrisy

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