Smug self-serving earnestness.
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Examples for "unction "
Examples for "unction "
1 In that time I must receive the extreme unction of the Church.
2 A person thus set apart receives the unction of the Holy One.
3 The President pronounced the last sentence with oratorical unction , and around him.
4 And I was certainly not the last to begin-especially at extreme unction .
5 You can put more savor and unction into it than I can.
1 From the beginning, she had ignored a certain oiliness in his voice.
2 For the first week without bathing, the skin's oiliness remained constant.
3 If correctly mixed, the emulsion, on cooling, will adhere without oiliness to glass.
4 The oiliness , the public theft, the cowardice, the welter of sin!
5 Steward, for looking us up, the Jew took up the idea with insulting oiliness .
1 At Strouther and Streckfuss's, Mr. Strouther came up and said with reeking unctuousness :
2 A mixture of creepy unctuousness and childhood regression to Mummy.
3 In a flat voice stripped of its former unctuousness , he said, "Is this really necessary?"
4 He smiled as he spoke with the unctuousness of a villain administering poison in a bouquet of roses.
5 Brother Baker's unctuousness angered Bud Perkins.
1 We catch his gusts of panic, his disease of nosing, his greasiness .
2 The greasiness and electrically charged quality of the air seemed to increase sharply.
3 Pizza The piquancy of Salad Cream cuts through any greasiness of the cheese.
4 A certain greasiness about the fellow increased my dislike.
5 Cathy stridently nominates greasiness as a category, as well as topping distribution and slice segmentation.
1 Capital berated Bonbright; labor was inclined to fulsomeness .
2 If this were flattery, tone and manner robbed it of fulsomeness , rendered it subtle beyond the coarser perceptions of the man.
3 The Chancellor's sense of proportion is curious, but may perhaps be condoned as of a piece with the fulsomeness of the day.
4 He was savouring to its utmost fulsomeness the supremest joy which animal man can ever know-thejoy of looking on a fallen enemy.
5 Cecil Rhodes, of course, had declared himself officially in accord with the High Commissioner, and even praised him to a degree of fulsomeness .
1 And so, men, drive your wives, beat them out of their self-consciousness and their soft smarminess and good, lovely idea of themselves.
2 They are stalked by a jigsaw-faced man who calls himself Stuntman Mike, played with grizzled smarminess by John Carpenter veteran Kurt Russell.
3 The thought of being subjected to his smarminess was simply too much to bear -and I lived here when Giuliani was mayor.
4 We have a vice of love, of softness and sweetness and smarminess and intimacy and promiscuous kindness and all that sort of thing.
5 'Ah, but you're not familiar with my background, James, my curriculum vitae.' The smile and the smarminess vanished.
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Translations for oleaginousness