fulsome vs laid on with a trowel

fulsome

adj
  • Offensive to good taste, tactless, overzealous, excessive. 

  • Marked by fullness; abundant, copious. 

  • Fully developed; mature. 

  • Excessively flattering (connoting insincerity). 

laid on with a trowel

How often have the words fulsome and laid on with a trowel occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )